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Like in a bowling alley Snowball II is swept from the room by the pin sweep and the Simpson family are placed on the lounge like pins. (Mother Simpson)
The Simpsons are windup dolls; the walk mechanically to the couch, except Homer, who falls. (A Fish Called Selma)
The Simpsons drive around the living room dressed as shriners in tiny cars. They park in a row in front of the TV. They then honk twice, like Marge does in the intro. (Homer the Smithers)
The couch moves to the side, and a police lineup chart falls from the ceiling. The Simpsons line up in front of it. (Who Shot Mr. Burns?)
The family appears as Sea Monkeys, swim to a row of clams (in the place of the couch), and watch an open treasure chest (in the place of the TV). (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
The family drops down from the ceiling one at a time with their head in a noose. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
The family enters dressed as Shriners, driving their cars around the living room, then they all park in front of the TV and honk their horns twice. (Bart Sells His Soul)
The family enters in a black-light haze, lighting returns to normal when Homer turns on the lights. (Homerpalooza)
The family is portrayed as a fax, and the couch as a fax machine (Summer of 4 Ft. 2)
The family run in and sit down as normal. The camera zooms in on a mouse hole to the right of the couch, and a family of five Simpson-esque mice run in and sit down on their own couch. (Team Homer)
The family runs into the couch uncolored, the colors are then sprayed on them by robotic arms. (The Day the Violence Died)
The family runs to the couch in black-and-white, until colors are sprayed on them by robotic arms. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
The Simpsons drive around the living room dressed as shriners in tiny cars. They park in a row in front of the TV. They then honk twice, like Marge does in the intro.
The family run in and sit down as normal. The camera zooms in on a mouse hole to the right of the couch, and a family of five Simpson-esque mice run in and sit down on their own couch.
The couch moves to the side, and a police lineup chart falls from the ceiling. The Simpsons line up in front of it.
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Homer: She's just like Clark Kent. Whenever there's lots of excitement, she's nowhere to be found. (Who Shot Mr. Burns?)
Marge: Yeah. Probably dreaming of the time she shot Mr. Burns. (Who Shot Mr. Burns?)
(Homer and Marge leave. Maggie wakes up and smiles right at the camera.) (Who Shot Mr. Burns?)
During the part where Comic Book Guy is searching for word about the Radioactive Man movie, one can see Prince as one of the computer nerds. (Radioactive Man (The Simpsons episode))
In this episode marge claims that bart had not said "don't have a cow man" for 4 years. This is true as he had not said it since season 3 (Summer of 4 Ft. 2)
One of Paul McCartney's stipulations for doing the guest spot was that Lisa's conversion to vegetarianism be a permanent one. Thus, it is an instance of continuity in the Simpsons universe that has been strictly held to. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
The boardroom discussion regarding who should play Radioactive Man parodies then-60-year-old Adam West's well-publicized insistence that he reprise his role as Batman for the 1989 film adaptation. (Radioactive Man (The Simpsons episode))
The version of "Maybe I'm Amazed" that plays over the end credits is an original mix by the Simpsons staff that when played backwards contains snippets of Paul McCartney reciting a recipe for lentil soup – a throwback to an earlier gag. One of the backwards snippets says "Oh, and by the way, I'm alive." - a reference to the Paul is dead theory. The backwards speech in the track is also a reference to this theory. The recited recipe can be found on the "Extras" section on Disc 1 of the seventh season DVD box set. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
When Maggie says "Daddily-do-doodilly", it is generally agreed upon that this is the second episode in which Maggie talks. The counter-argument is that since her head does a 180, which meant she could have been possessed. What she says can be argued as just another version of her first word, "Daddy", in Lisa's First Word and voiced by Elizabeth Taylor. (Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily)
Caltech (California Institute of Technology) is actually an American college, famous in part for playing pranks on other colleges. (Much Apu About Nothing)
Burns: Oh, he just looked so forlorn, Smithers, with his "Oh, I can't go to prison, Monty, they'll eat me alive." I wonder if this Homer Nixon is any relation? (Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield)
Evelyn: Don't worry, Marge. Her idea of wit is nothing more than an incisive observation humorously phrased and delivered with impeccable timing. (Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield)
Salesman: Listen, I'm not going to lie to you. Those are all superior machines. But if you like to watch your TV, and I mean really watch it, you want the Carnivale. It features two-pronged wall plug, pre-molded hand grip well, durable outer casing to prevent fallapart... (Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield)
According to the DVD commentary, Wes Archer, the episodes' director, attempted to TP George H. W. Bush's house during his childhood. (Two Bad Neighbors)
According to the DVD commentary, in the beginning of this episode, there was supposed to be a donkey basketball game at the school. This idea was later used in Bart-Mangled Banner. (Bart the Fink)
After graduating from "Caltech", Apu enrolls in the Springfield Heights Institute of Technology, which has a taboo acronym ("SHIT"). (Much Apu About Nothing)
After showing the false ending of Who Shot Mr. Burns?, Troy states that the ending could have only worked if they somehow ignored all of the Simpson D.N.A. evidence, which would be "downright nutty." (This is not true, because the DNA has the same explanation that it did in the real ending: the tug-of-war with Maggie). There is then a short, uncomfortable pause. The joke is a reference to the recently-concluded O.J. Simpson trial, wherein the jurors found O.J. "not guilty" and later interviews found that the jurors had ignored O. J. Simpson's D.N.A. found at the crime scene. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
Another reference was made was in The Cartridge Family. When Marge objected to the gun, she mentions, "Don't you remember when Maggie shot Mr. Burns?" Homer says, "I thought Smithers did it." Lisa replies with "That would've made a lot more sense." (Who Shot Mr. Burns?)
As Milhouse says that all he had done was having entered his name (Thrillhouse), the term gets abbreviated to THRILLHO due to the limitation of 8 characters for the player's name just like in many videogames. (Which is somewhat silly in that Milhouse would have been able to fit his real name using the 8 available characters) (Marge Be Not Proud)
As the organist plays "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" in church, a caption appears (to indicate a passage of time) that reads "Seventeen minutes later". That song actually does run seventeen minutes long. (Bart Sells His Soul)
At one point, as Homer and Apu are studying, Bart appears over the map of the USA and asks, "Watcha doing, studying?" They then proceed to tell Bart that they are looking for Springfield on the map. Barts goes, "Hey, we live right there!" and points to the map, but his head is blocking the map so we cannot see where he is pointing. This scene is not shown in syndication. (Much Apu About Nothing)
At the beginning of this episode, Bart and Homer interrupt Apu singing "Dream Police" by Cheap Trick while washing his car. (Two Bad Neighbors)
At the end of the closing credits of the Part One episode, the Gracie Films logo sequence ends with a gunshot sound, referring to the theme of the episode. (Who Shot Mr. Burns?)
Chester is credited with being the Creator, Director, Cellu-lamino Artist, Electrocity Engineer, and Ethnographer in "Manhattan Madness", which depicts "Itchy the Lucky Mouse" running a very crude caricature of an Irishman through a hand rolled washing machine and then decapitating Theodore Roosevelt. (The Day the Violence Died)
Chester's inscription on the original Itchy drawing reads; "To Roger Myers: Keep drawing - your moxie more than makes up for your lack of talent. Your pal, Chester J. Lampwick, Sept 3, 1919". (The Day the Violence Died)
Due to the "picture" of Matt Groening and the subsequent cash register joke, Matt Groening frequently receives mail from several right-wing groups applauding him. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
During the rummage sale, Marge is seen selling t-shirts with the words "I Didn't Do It" on them. This is reminiscent of the episode Bart Gets Famous, in which he said that line while he appeared in a sketch on the Krusty the Clown show. This is one of many examples of the writers reusing props that appeared in previous episodes. (Two Bad Neighbors)
For part one, Moe Szyslak's surname was made up specifically to make him a stronger suspect when Burns falls at the sundial pointing to W and S, interpreted as M and S in this case. According to the DVD commentary, the name "Szyslak" came from a phonebook. (Who Shot Mr. Burns?)
Frink's prediction that computers would become ever larger and costlier is a play on the old belief, expressed by IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, that the world market for computers was limited to just a handful of people and companies. (Much Apu About Nothing)
Homer's paycheck, where he complains about the $5 bear tax, also shows a gross pay of $479.60, net pay of $362.19 for 40 hours work, $56.25 for fed withholdings, $36.34 FICA, $10.45 state, and $9.37 municipal tax. (Much Apu About Nothing)
In "The Old Man and the Lisa" when Mr. Burns comes to the Simpsons house for Lisa, Homer shows him Maggie and she makes a gun shape with her hand. Mr. Burns then says "Oh yes, the baby who shot me." (Who Shot Mr. Burns?)
In Part 2, Mr. Burns is seen to be in hospital room number 2F20, which is also the episode number of that particular episode. (Who Shot Mr. Burns?)
In The Simpsons: Hit And Run mission, This Little Piggy, Apu wears his American costume from this episode when Krusty wants him to become an American so he can track down a criminal. (Much Apu About Nothing)
In episode "Marge vs. the Monorail" is shown the house where Jebediah was born, even though "Lisa the Iconoclast" shows the arrival of Jebediah to the place where later Springfield would be. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
In the DVD commentary for this episode, the writers claim that they were not even vaguely aware that George Bush had a younger son also named George (at that time, he was Governor of Texas, later being elected President in 2000), and Homer's reference to one of the cardboard cut-out sons as "George Bush Jr." was simply meant to be a joke about the stupidity of Homer and Bart's plan. (Two Bad Neighbors)
In the Season 12 episode "Day of the Jackanapes", when Krusty announces his retirement, Marge remarks, "It's good for a show to go off the air before it becomes stale and repetitive." At this point, Mr. Smithers pops in the door and cries out, "Maggie shot Mr. Burns again!" This line, however, was cut in syndication due to the Beltway sniper attacks of 2002. (Who Shot Mr. Burns?)
In the clothing store, Homer walks past two mannequins wearing identical outfits and riding on bikes. These are based on Billy and Benny McCrary, the world's heaviest twins who weighed 700+ pounds each. (King-Size Homer)
In the season 6 DVD box, the one that has the first part of the episode, there is an Easter Egg: if you take out the DVDs of the box, and take out the background of the box, you will find a secret picture that shows Maggie In Jail. (Who Shot Mr. Burns?)
Ironically, the clerk who begins the investigation into Krusty's financial fraud later guilts Bart for pointing it out in the first place. (Bart the Fink)
Iroquois Twists, the politically incorrect exercises that Mr. Burns leads in the final sequence, are fictitious. They were made up by the writers to sound old-timey. (King-Size Homer)
It is revealed on the DVD comentary for this episode that Matt Groening origanally wanted a family of mice to live in the Simpsons house, it is also mentioned that the doorways in the Simpsons house resemble Homer's head. (The Day the Violence Died)
Lisa says particularly out-of-character at the start of the episode, "I want to meet the first female Stealth Bomber pilot. During the Gulf War she destroyed seventy mosques and her name is Lisa too." (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Martin bought an Al Gore doll in Knoxville, which is appropriate for their locale since the former Vice President was raised in and served as senator from Tennessee. (Bart on the Road)
One of the first episodes to use computers to help the animation on the car in and near the cornfield. (Bart on the Road)
One of the protestor's signs as Apu goes to take his citizenship test reads "Homer says 'Get Out'". Oddly enough, it is held by Mrs Glick. (Much Apu About Nothing)
One rebroadcast version of this episode edited out the store detective's line, "If I wanted smoke blown out of my ass, I'd stay at home with a pack of cigarettes and a short length of hose." It has been seen in syndication and on the season seven DVD. (Marge Be Not Proud)
Smithers appears to take his vacation at a gay resort. There are several clues to this, including the fact that there are only men seen in the dance club, and that he drives a speedboat pulling along a pyramid of men in pink speedos. He also makes a point of his reluctance to bring Mr. Burns any pictures of his vacation. Many fans of the show believe that the resort is the real gay holiday resort Fire Island. Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Relax is playing in the background as Mr. Smithers calls Burns before being pushed into a conga line. (Homer the Smithers)
The Lester and Eliza drawings are very similar to the original drawings of Bart and Lisa used in the Tracey Ullman Show. (The Day the Violence Died)
The Spanish used during the Bumblebeeman's story is very bad. There are several words used that are not actually words (Woodpecker in Spanish is not "wudpequero") and many phrases seem like they were written in English and quickly translated into Spanish using a dictionary. Clearly, the crude Spanish was the intention of the writers because they are usually quite picky about correct translations. In several DVD commentaries, the writers say they went to various trustworthy sources to make sure they had correct translations - this is probably ironic, however, with the mistakes being deliberate for comedic value. (22 Short Films About Springfield)
The audio commentary for the episode reveals that guest star Lawrence Tierney's recording session was a very intimidating and stressful experience for the crew. Josh Weinstein recalls it as "the craziest guest star experience they've ever had", and involved "talking him out of bad ideas and trying to explain to him all these crazy jokes". (Marge Be Not Proud)
The cash register actually displays 847.63, which, according to Groening, is the average amount of money spent per month to raise a baby in 1989 when the show was created. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
The date of birth Bart has on his fake driver's license is 02/11/70, which would have made him 25 (as Milhouse exclaimed) or 26 (as this episode aired in 1996). Of course, this date contradicts with his "real" birthday (as it is a fake ID). (Bart on the Road)
The episode opens with a somewhat complicated joke: the law firm is called "Dewey, Cheathem, Howe, & Weissmann" - the gag being that the obvious joke name is Dewey, Cheatem & Howe, but somewhere along the line they've acquired a fourth partner, ruining the pun. (Bart the Fink)
The idea of selling someone's soul is taken from Greg Daniels childhood, when he bought the soul of a bully. When the bully came to Daniels crying one night he jacked up the price and the bully got his soul back. (Bart Sells His Soul)
The marquee at the theatre at which Andy Williams is performing proclaims "He's Still Got It!", according to Look magazine. However, said magazine folded in 1971. (Bart on the Road)
The reappearance of the scene originally cut from "Homer and Apu" on the DVD set of Season 5 reveals that the hindi music heard behind the voices in the bollywood movie was not added until the scene was chosen for part of this episode. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
The sign at the Kwik-E-Mart reads "closed for the second time ever". Up until that point, the only other time the store was shown as being closed was in "Stark Raving Dad". (22 Short Films About Springfield)
The three places that Mr. Burns crushes in his model of the town, Barney's Bowlarama, the Kwik-E-Mart, and the Nuclear Power Plant are all places where Homer has worked over the years. (Who Shot Mr. Burns?)
The title of the episode is a parody of the 1988 film A Fish Called Wanda and is also a reference to Troy McClure's romantic abnormality. (A Fish Called Selma)
There are three references to Adolf Hitler, first, there is a game at the Try-N-Save called, 'Save Hitler's Brain', second, the Simpson family photos include one with Bart imitating Hitler with a comb and a Nazi salute, and third, there is a game called 'SimReich' at the store, referring to Hitler's third reich and the SimCity computer games. (Marge Be Not Proud)
There is also another reference of Maggie as a "killer". In the episode Papa's Got a Brand New Badge, Homer is threatened to be killed by the mafia, after stopping their business. Just as the mafia is about to kill Homer, several gunshots wound all the members of the mafia. The hero (to Homer & Marge's side of the case) was of course, Maggie. The show also refers to Who Shot Mr. Burns? in the following line after Maggie saves Homer: (Who Shot Mr. Burns?)
There is one scene from "Grandpa VS Sexual Inadequacy" during the closing montage in which Marge and Homer are interrupted in bed by Bart. The blanket covering Marge's body is missing, because the drawings used were still missing the final layer. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
This episode shows a deleted scene from "Burns' Heir" in which Mr. Burns releases a robotRichard Simmons on Homer, which regenerates by means of liquid metal when shot at (all of which is a parody of the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day). This was a real scene that got cut because the writers didn't think it was funny, but it always got laughs when shown at college screenings and animation conventions . (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
This episode was also inspired by the animosity towards the show by the Bushes from earlier in the series' run. (Two Bad Neighbors)
This episode was due to be shown on BBC Two on September 14, 2001, but was replaced with Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield because of the part where Sideshow Bob steals the Wright Brothers plane at the air show, kidnaps Bart, and plans to crash the plane into the shack where Krusty was doing his "show" was considered "in poor taste" due to the September 11 attacks. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
This episode was originally extremely long. According to the DVD commentary, this is because Krusty the Clown and guest star Bob Newhart both talk in a very slow manner. Several of the deleted segments can be seen on the DVD. (Bart the Fink)
This is one of the only episodes in which Mr. Burns is portrayed as vigorous and athletic (at least for a man his age), rather than his more usual frail self. (King-Size Homer)
This is the second-ever Simpsons Christmas special. There was a six-year gap between this one, and the first one, Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire, which was also the first-ever Simpsons episode. The writers had been thinking about doing a second Christmas show for many years, but no one wanted to take it on because they thought that they would just be repeating the first episode. After this episode, new Christmas episodes were made every following year. (Marge Be Not Proud)
When Bart is questioning George the first time they meet, Bart asks "How many times were YOU president, George?" This may be a reference to his loss to Bill Clinton when running for a second term. Also, the destruction of his memoirs after a lot of hard work may be meant as a comical reason to explain why, in real life, he does not plan to write them. (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Grampa Simpson says he was spanked by Grover Cleveland on two non-consecutive occasions, he is making a joke about Grover Cleveland serving two non-consecutive terms. (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Jebediah Springfield (born Hans Sprungfeld) is shown laughing after writing his confession, he has a real tongue and not the prosthetic silver one. However, it should be noted that this scene is believed, by fans, to take place in Lisa's imagination. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
When Lisa asks Paul "Where is Linda?", Linda appears and says "I'm right here, whenever we're in Springfield, we like to spend time in Apu's garden in the shade!" referencing the Beatles song "Octopus's Garden" from the album Abbey Road. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
When Mother Simpson hits her head on the van at the end of the episode, the “D’oh!” she yells is not actually her voice. Glenn Close couldn’t get it to sound right, and so Pamela Hayden was dubbed in her place. (Mother Simpson)
When Mr. Burns discovers a register entry in his checkbook for "bowling," he says to Smithers, "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" And Smithers says, "Uh, sir, that's your boweling." Burns says, "Ah yes, that's always important" Then he sees the real bowling entry and repeats: "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" Upon replay of this episode in subsequent seasons, Fox cuts the first "bowling/boweling" reference. (Team Homer)
When Gerald Ford moves in at the end of the episode, the license plates for his two cars are MRDUH and LUV2SKI. The latter celebrates the former President's passion for skiing since he owned a house in Vail, Colorado in real life. (Two Bad Neighbors)
When the Simpson kids arrive at Flanders, Ned says "welcome to your new home, neglect-areenos!". However, Matt Groening pitched the joke as "Welcome to your new home, abuse-areenos!". It was changed because it was found to be offensive to children who really are abused. (Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily)
When the episode first aired, there was a write-in contest for any fan who could accurately guess who shot Mr. Burns. According to the writers on the DVD commentary for this episode, literally no one wrote in Maggie Simpson as the attempted murder suspect. Because they couldn't just leave the contest with no winner, they were forced to randomly select someone who had guessed Waylon Smithers. (Who Shot Mr. Burns?)
While this is only the second Christmas episode, every season after this has had one. (Marge Be Not Proud)
Willy claims he couldn't have shot Mr. Burns due to his arthritis, which he claims he received from battling space invaders in 1977. The game Space Invaders wasn't released until 1978, which explains Willy having never heard of it. (Who Shot Mr. Burns?)
Writer David S. Cohen created the word "cromulent", which was intended to sound like a real word but play on the fact that it and "embiggens" are completely fabricated. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, and Tom Hayden; all 1960s liberal radicals are mentioned by Mona Simpson. Simpson obtained employment from these figures while on the run. Many will note the irony—“Marketing Jerry Rubin’s line of diet shakes, proofreading Bobby Seale’s cookbook, and running credit checks at Tom Hayden’s Porsche dealership.” As it turns out, Jerry Rubin did indeed have a line of diet shakes, and Bobby Seale did indeed write some cookbooks. Most of the irony lies with Tom Hayden owning a Porsche dealership, as he was well known as the figurehead of anti-establishment. (Mother Simpson)
Simpsons writer Ian Maxtone-Graham was the basis of the tall man in the car who gives Nelson his comeuppance.
There are several major characters who did not get their own story in the scene where the various Springfieldianites are trying to help Lisa, including Groundskeeper Willie, Lionel Hutz, Otto, Sideshow Mel, Lenny, Mayor Quimby, Dr. Hibbert, the Sea Captain, Mr. Teeny and Üter. There are also some minor one-time characters, such as Corporal Punishment, Colonel Hapablap, Dr. Colossus, Handsome Pete and the Capitol City Goofball.
Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein and Matt Groening can be seen in animated form among the crowd who is on the street laughing at Nelson. According to Oakley, he and Weinstein are in the scene because they told the animators to fill the streets with idiots. Also seen in this scene is Don Brodka from "Marge Be Not Proud".
The sign at the Kwik-E-Mart reads "closed for the second time ever". Up until that point, the only other time the store was shown as being closed was in "Stark Raving Dad".
The Spanish used during the Bumblebeeman's story is very bad. There are several words used that are not actually words (Woodpecker in Spanish is not "wudpequero") and many phrases seem like they were written in English and quickly translated into Spanish using a dictionary. Clearly, the crude Spanish was the intention of the writers because they are usually quite picky about correct translations. In several DVD commentaries, the writers say they went to various trustworthy sources to make sure they had correct translations - this is probably ironic, however, with the mistakes being deliberate for comedic value.
Snake is wearing a Middlebury College t-shirt while he fights Chief Wiggum. Judging by his earlier quote while robbing Moe, "Goodbye student loan payments!", one can come to the conclusion that Snake is an alumnus of Middlebury College.
As the organist plays "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" in church, a caption appears (to indicate a passage of time) that reads "Seventeen minutes later". That song actually does run seventeen minutes long.
The idea of selling someone's soul is taken from Greg Daniels childhood, when he bought the soul of a bully. When the bully came to Daniels crying one night he jacked up the price and the bully got his soul back.
The marquee at the theatre at which Andy Williams is performing proclaims "He's Still Got It!", according to Look magazine. However, said magazine folded in 1971.
Apparently, one of the acts in Branson pairs Waylon Jennings and Madame (although the marquee reads "Madam").
Skinner tries to curtail his swearing by exclaiming, "GMChrysler!"
Martin bought an Al Gore doll in Knoxville, which is appropriate for their locale since the former Vice President was raised in and served as senator from Tennessee.
The date of birth Bart has on his fake driver's license is 02/11/70, which would have made him 25 (as Milhouse exclaimed) or 26 (as this episode aired in 1996). Of course, this date contradicts with his "real" birthday (as it is a fake ID).
One of the signs that the car passes by has the name Lurleen Lumpkin, who is last seen in Marge vs. the Monorail.
One of the first episodes to use computers to help the animation on the car in and near the cornfield.
The boys pick up a strange looking man at one point, whom looks and sounds similar to the hitchhiker from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
The David Cronenberg film Naked Lunch (based on the works of William S. Burroughs) is referenced when Bart, Milhouse and Nelson sneak into it and are disappointed at how misleading the title is.
When Bart arrives in Hong Kong, he apparently gets off the plane that is labeled "中華航空公司" (China Airlines), which is based in Taipei.
This episode was originally extremely long. According to the DVD commentary, this is because Krusty the Clown and guest star Bob Newhart both talk in a very slow manner. Several of the deleted segments can be seen on the DVD.
According to the DVD commentary, in the beginning of this episode, there was supposed to be a donkey basketball game at the school. This idea was later used in Bart-Mangled Banner.
The episode opens with a somewhat complicated joke: the law firm is called "Dewey, Cheathem, Howe, & Weissmann" - the gag being that the obvious joke name is Dewey, Cheatem & Howe, but somewhere along the line they've acquired a fourth partner, ruining the pun.
Ironically, the clerk who begins the investigation into Krusty's financial fraud later guilts Bart for pointing it out in the first place.
When the Simpson kids arrive at Flanders, Ned says "welcome to your new home, neglect-areenos!". However, Matt Groening pitched the joke as "Welcome to your new home, abuse-areenos!". It was changed because it was found to be offensive to children who really are abused.
When Maggie says "Daddily-do-doodilly", it is generally agreed upon that this is the second episode in which Maggie talks. The counter-argument is that since her head does a 180, which meant she could have been possessed. What she says can be argued as just another version of her first word, "Daddy", in Lisa's First Word and voiced by Elizabeth Taylor.
This episode's opening scene parodies a deleted scene from the episode Some Enchanted Evening, as Marge makes breakfast almost exactly the same way as she does it in that scene.
Smithers appears to take his vacation at a gay resort. There are several clues to this, including the fact that there are only men seen in the dance club, and that he drives a speedboat pulling along a pyramid of men in pink speedos. He also makes a point of his reluctance to bring Mr. Burns any pictures of his vacation. Many fans of the show believe that the resort is the real gay holiday resort Fire Island. Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Relax is playing in the background as Mr. Smithers calls Burns before being pushed into a conga line.
Homer reads the computer readout in a rather flat monotone, similar to how a computer voice synthesizer would read it.
Iroquois Twists, the politically incorrect exercises that Mr. Burns leads in the final sequence, are fictitious. They were made up by the writers to sound old-timey.
This is one of the only episodes in which Mr. Burns is portrayed as vigorous and athletic (at least for a man his age), rather than his more usual frail self.
In the clothing store, Homer walks past two mannequins wearing identical outfits and riding on bikes. These are based on Billy and Benny McCrary, the world's heaviest twins who weighed 700+ pounds each.
Donald Sutherland also worked with Yeardley Smith (the voice of Lisa) on Heaven Help Us, which was Smith's first film.
Writer David S. Cohen created the word "cromulent", which was intended to sound like a real word but play on the fact that it and "embiggens" are completely fabricated.
When Jebediah Springfield's grave is being dug up, the shovel flings dirt onto the grave of Adlai Stevenson. Stevenson was buried in his hometown of Bloomington, Illinois.
When Jebediah Springfield (born Hans Sprungfeld) is shown laughing after writing his confession, he has a real tongue and not the prosthetic silver one. However, it should be noted that this scene is believed, by fans, to take place in Lisa's imagination.
In episode "Marge vs. the Monorail" is shown the house where Jebediah was born, even though "Lisa the Iconoclast" shows the arrival of Jebediah to the place where later Springfield would be.
The version of "Maybe I'm Amazed" that plays over the end credits is an original mix by the Simpsons staff that when played backwards contains snippets of Paul McCartney reciting a recipe for lentil soup – a throwback to an earlier gag. One of the backwards snippets says "Oh, and by the way, I'm alive." - a reference to the Paul is dead theory. The backwards speech in the track is also a reference to this theory. The recited recipe can be found on the "Extras" section on Disc 1 of the seventh season DVD box set.
One of Paul McCartney's stipulations for doing the guest spot was that Lisa's conversion to vegetarianism be a permanent one. Thus, it is an instance of continuity in the Simpsons universe that has been strictly held to.
When Lisa asks Paul "Where is Linda?", Linda appears and says "I'm right here, whenever we're in Springfield, we like to spend time in Apu's garden in the shade!" referencing the Beatles song "Octopus's Garden" from the album Abbey Road.
This is the second-ever Simpsons Christmas special. There was a six-year gap between this one, and the first one, Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire, which was also the first-ever Simpsons episode. The writers had been thinking about doing a second Christmas show for many years, but no one wanted to take it on because they thought that they would just be repeating the first episode. After this episode, new Christmas episodes were made every following year.
This is the third shoplifting-themed episode: previously one of the Tracey Ullman shorts that featured Bart stealing candy bars, and Marge accidentally shoplifted in Marge in Chains.
As Milhouse says that all he had done was having entered his name (Thrillhouse), the term gets abbreviated to THRILLHO due to the limitation of 8 characters for the player's name just like in many videogames. (Which is somewhat silly in that Milhouse would have been able to fit his real name using the 8 available characters)
The first-ever Simpsons episode, Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire aired on the same date six years earlier, making this episode the 6th Anniversary of The Simpsons.
While this is only the second Christmas episode, every season after this has had one.
One rebroadcast version of this episode edited out the store detective's line, "If I wanted smoke blown out of my ass, I'd stay at home with a pack of cigarettes and a short length of hose." It has been seen in syndication and on the season seven DVD.
The audio commentary for the episode reveals that guest star Lawrence Tierney's recording session was a very intimidating and stressful experience for the crew. Josh Weinstein recalls it as "the craziest guest star experience they've ever had", and involved "talking him out of bad ideas and trying to explain to him all these crazy jokes".
There are three references to Adolf Hitler, first, there is a game at the Try-N-Save called, 'Save Hitler's Brain', second, the Simpson family photos include one with Bart imitating Hitler with a comb and a Nazi salute, and third, there is a game called 'SimReich' at the store, referring to Hitler's third reich and the SimCity computer games.
This episode marks the second appearance of Homer’s mother. She first appeared in the season two episode “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?” wherein she was voiced by Maggie Roswell.
When Mother Simpson hits her head on the van at the end of the episode, the “D’oh!” she yells is not actually her voice. Glenn Close couldn’t get it to sound right, and so Pamela Hayden was dubbed in her place.
Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, and Tom Hayden; all 1960s liberal radicals are mentioned by Mona Simpson. Simpson obtained employment from these figures while on the run. Many will note the irony—“Marketing Jerry Rubin’s line of diet shakes, proofreading Bobby Seale’s cookbook, and running credit checks at Tom Hayden’s Porsche dealership.” As it turns out, Jerry Rubin did indeed have a line of diet shakes, and Bobby Seale did indeed write some cookbooks. Most of the irony lies with Tom Hayden owning a Porsche dealership, as he was well known as the figurehead of anti-establishment.
The DVD commentary for this episode reveals that the original title was going to be "The Anti-Immigrant Song" in reference to the Led Zeppelin song, Immigrant Song.
After graduating from "Caltech", Apu enrolls in the Springfield Heights Institute of Technology, which has a taboo acronym ("SHIT").
At one point, as Homer and Apu are studying, Bart appears over the map of the USA and asks, "Watcha doing, studying?" They then proceed to tell Bart that they are looking for Springfield on the map. Barts goes, "Hey, we live right there!" and points to the map, but his head is blocking the map so we cannot see where he is pointing. This scene is not shown in syndication.
There is a scene where young Apu says goodbye to his family, including his future arranged marriage bride, Manjula. This is a foreshadowing, as Apu meets Manjula again for the marriage in The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons in Season 9. This scene is not shown in syndication.
In The Simpsons: Hit And Run mission, This Little Piggy, Apu wears his American costume from this episode when Krusty wants him to become an American so he can track down a criminal.
The Bear Patrol plane is a B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.
Caltech (California Institute of Technology) is actually an American college, famous in part for playing pranks on other colleges.
Homer's paycheck, where he complains about the $5 bear tax, also shows a gross pay of $479.60, net pay of $362.19 for 40 hours work, $56.25 for fed withholdings, $36.34 FICA, $10.45 state, and $9.37 municipal tax.
One of the protestor's signs as Apu goes to take his citizenship test reads "Homer says 'Get Out'". Oddly enough, it is held by Mrs Glick.
Frink's prediction that computers would become ever larger and costlier is a play on the old belief, expressed by IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, that the world market for computers was limited to just a handful of people and companies.
During the part where Comic Book Guy is searching for word about the Radioactive Man movie, one can see Prince as one of the computer nerds.
The boardroom discussion regarding who should play Radioactive Man parodies then-60-year-old Adam West's well-publicized insistence that he reprise his role as Batman for the 1989 film adaptation.
The Scoutmaster in the flashback to the campy 70's series is based on Paul Lynde.
In the DVD commentary, Matt Groening said that Rainier Wolfcastle's line, "My eyes! The goggles do nothing!" is among his favorite lines from the entire series.
Sheldon Skinner would not actually be related to Seymour Skinner (Armin Tamzarian), as we know him, given the episode of "The Principal and the Pauper". Instead, Sheldon Skinner would be related to the Seymour Skinner that was introduced in that episode, despite looking similar to the Seymour Skinner who is principal of Springfield Elementary.
Asa Phelps can be rewritten to spell out "A Sap Helps".
Salesman: Listen, I'm not going to lie to you. Those are all superior machines. But if you like to watch your TV, and I mean really watch it, you want the Carnivale. It features two-pronged wall plug, pre-molded hand grip well, durable outer casing to prevent fallapart...
Homer: Sold. You wrap it up, I'll start bringing in the pennies.
(Marge tries on their first dress, a large red leather one.)
Patty: This dress is "Fantasy in Maroon". It's got some cigarette burns, but you can patch them up with new vinyl.
Marge: Its a little bit..."peppery" for me...let's put it in the "maybe pile"...
(Marge is then seen in an extremely tight, revealing purple minidress, and large hoop earrings.)
Selma: This used to be a Halloween costume, but it found its way into my regular rotation.
Marge: Uh huh...
Marge: I'll be there with bells on.
Susan: Where exactly will you be attaching them to that mangled Chanel suit?
Evelyn: Don't worry, Marge. Her idea of wit is nothing more than an incisive observation humorously phrased and delivered with impeccable timing.
Burns: Who is that lavatory linksman, Smithers?
Smithers: Homer Simpson, sir. One of the fork and spoon operators from sector 7-G.
Burns: Well, he's certainly got a loose waggle. Perhaps I've finally found a golfer worthy of a match with Monty Burns, eh?
Smithers: His waggle is no match for yours, sir. I've never seen you lose a game. Except for that one in '74 when you let Richard Nixon win. That was very kind of you, sir.
Burns: Oh, he just looked so forlorn, Smithers, with his "Oh, I can't go to prison, Monty, they'll eat me alive." I wonder if this Homer Nixon is any relation?
Smithers: Unlikely, sir. They spell and pronounce their names differently.
Burns: Bah. Schedule a game and I'll ask him myself.
This episode was due to be shown on BBC Two on September 14, 2001, but was replaced with Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield because of the part where Sideshow Bob steals the Wright Brothers plane at the air show, kidnaps Bart, and plans to crash the plane into the shack where Krusty was doing his "show" was considered "in poor taste" due to the September 11 attacks.
One of the O's in Ocho is an eight-Ball.
Lisa says particularly out-of-character at the start of the episode, "I want to meet the first female Stealth Bomber pilot. During the Gulf War she destroyed seventy mosques and her name is Lisa too."
When Mr. Burns discovers a register entry in his checkbook for "bowling," he says to Smithers, "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" And Smithers says, "Uh, sir, that's your boweling." Burns says, "Ah yes, that's always important" Then he sees the real bowling entry and repeats: "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" Upon replay of this episode in subsequent seasons, Fox cuts the first "bowling/boweling" reference.
The episode is dedicated to the memory of Doris Grau, a script supervisor and voice provider of Lunchlady Doris.
This is the last episode David Mirkin was the executive producer and show runner.
Chester is credited with being the Creator, Director, Cellu-lamino Artist, Electrocity Engineer, and Ethnographer in "Manhattan Madness", which depicts "Itchy the Lucky Mouse" running a very crude caricature of an Irishman through a hand rolled washing machine and then decapitating Theodore Roosevelt.
The first Itchy and Scratchy cartoon "Steamboat Itchy" first appeared in the episode Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie. The credits read: Written, Directed, and Created by Roger Myers; Music by Roger Myers and George Gershwin, Produced by Roger Myers and Joseph P. Kennedy.
Homer Groening, Matt Groening's father, died two days before this episode aired.
Chester's inscription on the original Itchy drawing reads; "To Roger Myers: Keep drawing - your moxie more than makes up for your lack of talent. Your pal, Chester J. Lampwick, Sept 3, 1919".
The Lester and Eliza drawings are very similar to the original drawings of Bart and Lisa used in the Tracey Ullman Show.
It is revealed on the DVD comentary for this episode that Matt Groening origanally wanted a family of mice to live in the Simpsons house, it is also mentioned that the doorways in the Simpsons house resemble Homer's head.
This is the third episode to show its title within the show.
The featured, alternate ending to Who Shot Mr. Burns? was created to prevent any staff (be it writers, or even the overseas animators) on the Simpsons from spoiling the mystery.
Due to the "picture" of Matt Groening and the subsequent cash register joke, Matt Groening frequently receives mail from several right-wing groups applauding him.
The cash register actually displays 847.63, which, according to Groening, is the average amount of money spent per month to raise a baby in 1989 when the show was created.
This is the only episode to suggest the house is a set. The later episode parodying VH-1's "Behind the Music", Behind the Laughter, insists the house is an actual house and the show is shot on location.
There is one scene from "Grandpa VS Sexual Inadequacy" during the closing montage in which Marge and Homer are interrupted in bed by Bart. The blanket covering Marge's body is missing, because the drawings used were still missing the final layer.
After showing the false ending of Who Shot Mr. Burns?, Troy states that the ending could have only worked if they somehow ignored all of the Simpson D.N.A. evidence, which would be "downright nutty." (This is not true, because the DNA has the same explanation that it did in the real ending: the tug-of-war with Maggie). There is then a short, uncomfortable pause. The joke is a reference to the recently-concluded O.J. Simpson trial, wherein the jurors found O.J. "not guilty" and later interviews found that the jurors had ignored O. J. Simpson's D.N.A. found at the crime scene.
The reappearance of the scene originally cut from "Homer and Apu" on the DVD set of Season 5 reveals that the hindi music heard behind the voices in the bollywood movie was not added until the scene was chosen for part of this episode.
This episode shows a deleted scene from "Burns' Heir" in which Mr. Burns releases a robotRichard Simmons on Homer, which regenerates by means of liquid metal when shot at (all of which is a parody of the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day). This was a real scene that got cut because the writers didn't think it was funny, but it always got laughs when shown at college screenings and animation conventions .
Despite the hype over the appearance of George and Barbara Bush in this episode, they were actually voiced by cast members Harry Shearer and Tress MacNeille. Dan Castellaneta voiced Gerald Ford. This is actually the second appearance for Barbara Bush, although in the earlier cameo in Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington, she was voiced by Maggie Roswell and showed off the Presidential bathroom.
This episode was also inspired by the animosity towards the show by the Bushes from earlier in the series' run.
When Gerald Ford moves in at the end of the episode, the license plates for his two cars are MRDUH and LUV2SKI. The latter celebrates the former President's passion for skiing since he owned a house in Vail, Colorado in real life.
This episode features the first appearance of Disco Stu.
At the beginning of this episode, Bart and Homer interrupt Apu singing "Dream Police" by Cheap Trick while washing his car.
In the DVD commentary for this episode, the writers claim that they were not even vaguely aware that George Bush had a younger son also named George (at that time, he was Governor of Texas, later being elected President in 2000), and Homer's reference to one of the cardboard cut-out sons as "George Bush Jr." was simply meant to be a joke about the stupidity of Homer and Bart's plan.
During the rummage sale, Marge is seen selling t-shirts with the words "I Didn't Do It" on them. This is reminiscent of the episode Bart Gets Famous, in which he said that line while he appeared in a sketch on the Krusty the Clown show. This is one of many examples of the writers reusing props that appeared in previous episodes.
When Grampa Simpson says he was spanked by Grover Cleveland on two non-consecutive occasions, he is making a joke about Grover Cleveland serving two non-consecutive terms.
According to the DVD commentary, Wes Archer, the episodes' director, attempted to TP George H. W. Bush's house during his childhood.
When Bart is questioning George the first time they meet, Bart asks "How many times were YOU president, George?" This may be a reference to his loss to Bill Clinton when running for a second term. Also, the destruction of his memoirs after a lot of hard work may be meant as a comical reason to explain why, in real life, he does not plan to write them.
Willy claims he couldn't have shot Mr. Burns due to his arthritis, which he claims he received from battling space invaders in 1977. The game Space Invaders wasn't released until 1978, which explains Willy having never heard of it.
At the end of the closing credits of the Part One episode, the Gracie Films logo sequence ends with a gunshot sound, referring to the theme of the episode.
The three places that Mr. Burns crushes in his model of the town, Barney's Bowlarama, the Kwik-E-Mart, and the Nuclear Power Plant are all places where Homer has worked over the years.
There is also another reference of Maggie as a "killer". In the episode Papa's Got a Brand New Badge, Homer is threatened to be killed by the mafia, after stopping their business. Just as the mafia is about to kill Homer, several gunshots wound all the members of the mafia. The hero (to Homer & Marge's side of the case) was of course, Maggie. The show also refers to Who Shot Mr. Burns? in the following line after Maggie saves Homer:
Homer: Aw, she's taking a nap..
Marge: Yeah. Probably dreaming of the time she shot Mr. Burns.
Homer: She's just like Clark Kent. Whenever there's lots of excitement, she's nowhere to be found.
(Homer and Marge leave. Maggie wakes up and smiles right at the camera.)
In "The Old Man and the Lisa" when Mr. Burns comes to the Simpsons house for Lisa, Homer shows him Maggie and she makes a gun shape with her hand. Mr. Burns then says "Oh yes, the baby who shot me."
For part one, Moe Szyslak's surname was made up specifically to make him a stronger suspect when Burns falls at the sundial pointing to W and S, interpreted as M and S in this case. According to the DVD commentary, the name "Szyslak" came from a phonebook.
In Part 2, Mr. Burns is seen to be in hospital room number 2F20, which is also the episode number of that particular episode.
In the season 6 DVD box, the one that has the first part of the episode, there is an Easter Egg: if you take out the DVDs of the box, and take out the background of the box, you will find a secret picture that shows Maggie In Jail.
In the Season 12 episode "Day of the Jackanapes", when Krusty announces his retirement, Marge remarks, "It's good for a show to go off the air before it becomes stale and repetitive." At this point, Mr. Smithers pops in the door and cries out, "Maggie shot Mr. Burns again!" This line, however, was cut in syndication due to the Beltway sniper attacks of 2002.
Another reference was made was in The Cartridge Family. When Marge objected to the gun, she mentions, "Don't you remember when Maggie shot Mr. Burns?" Homer says, "I thought Smithers did it." Lisa replies with "That would've made a lot more sense."
When the episode first aired, there was a write-in contest for any fan who could accurately guess who shot Mr. Burns. According to the writers on the DVD commentary for this episode, literally no one wrote in Maggie Simpson as the attempted murder suspect. Because they couldn't just leave the contest with no winner, they were forced to randomly select someone who had guessed Waylon Smithers.
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A Wrinkle in Time - theme of conformity in the public school; scene of children bouncing balls in unison. (Team Homer)
Caddyshack - the final bowling scene is similar to the final golfing scene. (Team Homer)
At the time of this episode, a woman named Awilda Lopez was arrested for killing her adoptive daughter. When she was arrested, Lopez admitted to using her child as a mop to clean the floors of her house, similar to how Krusty the Clown uses Sideshow Mel in the beginning of this episode. Many fans found the joke to be in bad taste due to the timing of the events, but the joke has not been edited out and is included on the season seven DVD set. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Skinner says that "Steamed Hams" is an expression used in Albany and not Utica, while the two cities are in the same region of Upstate NY, barely an hour apart from one another. (22 Short Films About Springfield)
When Homer and Bart shoot bottle rockets at the Bush house, it parodies a scene similar to the "Desert Storm" operation of the 1991 Gulf War, which occurred when Bush was in office. (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Mr. Burns was at the post office asking the postal clerk "I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 autogyro?", Prussia was once a powerful European empire that covered what is now Germany and parts of Poland, Siam was a country now known Thailand, and the autogyro was an aircraft that later paved the way for the invention of the helicopter. (Mother Simpson)
Cinnaburst commercials - "Those magazines cause a disturbing amount of laughter." (Team Homer)
Fail-Safe – At the beginning of the third act, we see scenes of everyday life across Springfield. One by one, with a "zooming" sound effect, they all freeze-frame in anticipation of the (supposedly) imminent nuclear blast. Such was the ending of the 1964Cold War thriller by Sidney Lumet. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
"Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" is a parody of the 1986 movie Maximum Overdrive, where a similar stellar cloud causes all machines, including cars, to move on their own, and attack mankind. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
"High Flight" sonnet quoted by the purportedly American Air Force general, which is actually more affiliated with the Royal Canadian Air Force. It is a similar jab to the British-made Harrier joke. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
"Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace" is a parody of A Nightmare on Elm Street. When Willie shows the shadow of his rake, it is a homage to Freddy Krueger's famous clawed glove. Willie is also dressed as Freddy would be, in a red and green striped sweater. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
Dr. Strangelove – The underground compound resembles the War Room from the film; also Professor Frink appears as the title character from the film. The tune that Sideshow Bob whistles while preparing the bomb is "We'll Meet Again," as sung by Vera Lynn at the end of the film. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
At the end of the episode, Mr. Smithers is feeding Mr. Burns peanuts, and Mr. Burns opens his mouth and makes a clicking noise, as in A Clockwork Orange when Alex is being fed by the Minister of the Interior. The manner in which Burns becomes injured is also similar to Alex: they both take a potentially life-threatening fall from a top story window. (Homer the Smithers)
Barbra Bush says George and Homer got off on the wrong foot, claiming their relationship is "just like the Noriega thing - now he and George are the best of friends." This reference to the former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is actually the opposite of the real situation: as CIA director, Bush had arranged for annual payments to General Noriega, but years later Bush launched Operation Just Cause to depose him. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Bush is paid a visit by Mikhail Gorbachev. Homer calls him a "Commie friend" to Bush, referencing Gorbachev's role as the last leader of the Soviet Union before the fall of Communism and the thaw in relations between the two countries during Bush's term in office. (Two Bad Neighbors)
During the Schoolhouse Rock parody, after the amendment is ratified, a character runs past the screen and imitates Curly Howard's trademark whooping noise. (The Day the Violence Died)
During the shot in which the shredded memoir is falling, a torn piece of paper briefly falls past the screen, with the only non-shredded words reading "V.P. Quayle" and "embarrassment." (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer and Ford simultaneously fall over the sidewalk incline when the show ends. This is a parody of Gerald Ford's perceived clumsiness (most notably when he fell down the stairs of Air Force One several times) while in office. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer attempts to persuade Marge not to sell his "Ayatollah Assa-hola" (Ayatollah Khomeni) t-shirt, claiming it works for any Ayatollah. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer demanding vengeance for Bush spanking Bart on the butt is a reference to those who were outraged by the Michael P. Fay incident. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer is punched in the stomach, which traps the assailant's hand within the fat. This references Terminator 2: Judgment Day, in which the T-800 punches the T-1000's head, only to be enveloped by liquid metal. (Homer the Smithers)
Homer tricks Bush into coming to the door so he can glue a rainbow wig to his head by placing cardboard cutouts of Bush's sons in front of the door leading Bush to believe they're real. The sons represented are current President George W. Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush. (Two Bad Neighbors)
In "Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" the radio announcement "Astronomers from Tacoma to Vladivostok have just reported an ionic disturbance in the vicinity of the Van Allen Belt. Scientists are recommending that necessary precautions be taken." is an homage to the "announcements" near the start of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre radio play The War of the Worlds broadcast on Halloween 1938. In that play, the music of "Ramon Raquello and his orchestra" is interrupted by radio reports of astronomers at Princeton observing disturbances on Mars prior to the Martian invasion . (Treehouse of Horror VI)
In The Simpsons: Hit & Run, the opening missions of Stage 2 focuses on Bart trying to get a copy of "Bonestorm 2", despite the threat of expulsion from school for skipping. Sadly, the next shipment of the game never came due to Homer and Marge attacking the delivery truck during a Stage 1 mission. (Marge Be Not Proud)
In the opening scene Reverend Lovejoy mispronounces the band name "Iron Butterfly" as "I. Ron Butterfly", in reference to L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology. He also refers to the song "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" as "In the Garden of Eden", effectively pronouncing it correctly. This is also a nod and a wink to the song's authors and their stories regarding the origination of the title. (Bart Sells His Soul)
In this episode heaven is meant to look like Oz, from The Wizard of Oz. (Bart Sells His Soul)
In this episode, Rodger Meyers Jr. points out the well observed fact that many cartoons, especially the early 1960s Hanna-Barbera, are plagiarized live-action television shows and deeply resemble celebrities of the time. Examples include The Flintstones being a copy of The Honeymooners, Top Cat being based on Sgt. Bilko and, in one of the occasional times the show breaks the fourth wall, The Simpsons character Chief Wiggum being an animated counterpart of Edward G. Robinson. Wiggum, in the court at the time, looks at Meyers when he say the latter. (The Day the Violence Died)
Jebediah Springfield and the annual Springfield anniversary parallel Christopher Columbus and the annual national holiday which bears his name. In the episode it is revealed by Lisa that Springfield was not a hero but a pirate. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Krusty the Clown thinks of a way to stay on the air while the TV station was conducting an Emergency Broadcast System test. Though FCC regulations prohibited the actual EBS tone from airing on that show, the tone heard on this episode is actually used as an Emergency Alert System attention signal on NOAA Weather Radio. When Krusty started airing his show in a civil defense shack, the EBS was activated as if there were an actual emergency. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Krusty's airplane, "I'm-on-a-rolla-Gay", is a spoof of the Enola Gay B-29 airplane that dropped the A-bomb on Hiroshima. (Bart the Fink)
Lisa jokingly claims she has "Chester A. Arthritis" in the historical society. This is a reference to the twenty first president of the United States: Chester A. Arthur. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Lisa's poster of Jebediah Springfield resembles the "Wanted for Treason" poster circulated around Dallas about John F Kennedy before he was assassinated. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Moe says that the Bears are "smarter than the aver-age bear" and "they swiped my pic-a-nic basket" in an homage to the Yogi Bear cartoons. (Much Apu About Nothing)
On the Krusty Christmas Special, Krusty references guest stars including "respected private citizen Tom Landry" and "South American sensation Xoxchitla." Krusty experiences severe difficulty pronouncing the name of the latter guest, who resembles the Brazilian children's television host Xuxa. (Marge Be Not Proud)
Roger Meyers, Sr., is again compared to Walt Disney when Joseph P. Kennedy is listed as a producer on Meyers' "Steamboat Itchy" cartoon in this episode. Walt Disney's cartoons were distributed to movie theatres from 1936 to 1952 by RKO Pictures, a movie studio founded when three Kennedy-owned companies merged with RCA in 1928. However, it should be noted that Joseph Kennedy sold all of his RKO stock in 1931 due to pressures from the Depression, so Disney and Kennedy never, in fact, worked together in Hollywood. (The Day the Violence Died)
Smithers sensing something is wrong with Mr Burns is similar to Hallorann sensing something is wrong with Danny in the 1980 filmThe Shining. (Homer the Smithers)
The cartoon "Itchy and Scratchy Meets Fritz The Cat" is a reference to the 1972 animated film Fritz the Cat that depicted drug use and sexuality in a frank matter. (The Day the Violence Died)
The character Roger Meyers, Sr. is based on Walt Disney, and many of the situations from this episode have their basis in fact or legend about the mogul. The relationship between Roger Meyers, Sr., and Chester J. Lampwick mirrors the real-life relationship between Disney and his chief animator in the 1920s, Ub Iwerks, who has been credited by some as having co-created Mickey Mouse. (The Day the Violence Died)
The commercial for Bonestorm is a parody of the Slim Jim commercials. A wild Santa Claus, who is the game's spokesman, is a take on Slim Jim spokesman "Macho Man" Randy Savage. The commercial also parodies Mortal Kombat, featuring a cameo by a Liu Kang doppelganger who fights against a tank, and one of the characters in Bonestorm looks similar to Goro. (Marge Be Not Proud)
The episode contains numerous references to Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. Like the film, the episode's plot is episodic though interconnected. Apu's brother Sanjay makes a square with his fingers, like Uma Thurman. The policemen's conversation about McDonald's parallels the famous "Royale With Cheese" discussion; the Krustyburger restaurant it takes place in also bears a striking resemblance to the diner Pumpkin and Honey Bunny attempt to rob in the film. In addition, Misirlou is playing in the background on the Krusty Burger's jukebox. (22 Short Films About Springfield)
The episode could be said to be a nod to Tarantino's style as a whole as Tarantino will often take segements from other films (or different media) and intertwine them into the story in the same way this episode does. (22 Short Films About Springfield)
The film Tron (the first major film to use computer animation) is also mentioned by Homer as a means of describing his surroundings, as it featured similarly-styled vector-like computer graphics. In what appears to be a sly allusion to the film's lack of success at the box-office, none of the other characters are familiar with the reference. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
The flashback scene where Homer tries to fit in with a group of guys in a van is similar to scenes from Dazed and Confused. (Homerpalooza)
The ornate building Homer encounters inside the third dimension (and is subsequently sucked into the black hole) is a recreation of the exterior of the library players encounter in the popular PC game Myst. The calm strings-based music throughout this segment similarly evokes the The Last Message (Imager Room Theme) from this game. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
The radical group Mother Simpson becomes involved with is loosely based on the Weather Underground. Specifically, the story of group leader and former fugitive Bernardine Dohrn served as the inspiration for Mother Simpson’s life on the run. (Mother Simpson)
The relationship between Roger Meyers, Sr. and Chester J. Lampwick also mirrors that of the creators of Felix the Cat: Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer. Like Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, Pat Sullivan owned the cartoon studio and took all the credit, and it wasn't revealed until much later that Otto Messmer had been chiefly responsible for most of Felix's early development. (The Day the Violence Died)
The song originally intended to be taped over Mr. Burns’s cassette of “Walküenritt” was “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,” but was unclearable (too expensive), and ABBA’s “Waterloo” was selected instead (although the closed-captioning of the original broadcasting lists the last song as “Don’t You Want Me”). (Mother Simpson)
The subplot involving Chief Wiggum and Snake is a direct parody of the "Gold Watch" segment of the film. Snake runs over the donut-carrying Wiggum at a red light, like Bruce Willis did to Ving Rhames, and Wiggum chases after Snake (although his motive is exchanging insurance information rather than revenge). The two run into Herman's Pawn Shop, where Herman beats up and binds and gags the two, then waits for "Zed" to arrive. The Van Houtens come in instead, and a visibly annoyed Herman lets Milhouse use the restroom. Herman then threatens Kirk with his shotgun, but Milhouse unintentionally knocks out the shopkeeper with a spiked mace he found in the back room. Wiggum then hops out the open door, still tied to his chair, and falls down in the middle of the street. (22 Short Films About Springfield)
There are several Woodstock references in the episode, including Lisa noting that Hullabalooza was just like Woodstock, except "with security guards and ads everywhere." (Homerpalooza)
Troy McClure stars in the fictional film The Muppets Go Medieval, a reference to various Muppet movies, and the film Pulp Fiction, which featured the term "get medieval". (A Fish Called Selma)
Troy being pulled over in a Delorean mimics Johnny Carson's drunk driving offense while driving a Delorean DMC-12 in 1982. (A Fish Called Selma)
Troy suggests that he might have a fragrance named after him called "Smellin' of Troy," a take-off of Helen of Troy. (A Fish Called Selma)
Troy's sham marriage to Selma mirrors that of Rock Hudson's own marriage as Selma asks Troy if he were gay. This may refer to actors who get married to cover their homosexuality. (A Fish Called Selma)
When Bart and Bush are looking through a photo album, Bart says that Bob Mosbacher is "a dumb name." (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Bart is debating whether or not to steal the game, he imagines likenesses of Sonic The Hedgehog, Donkey Kong, Mario and Luigi (who are depicted with the opposites of their actual heights) urging him to take it. (Marge Be Not Proud)
When Bart is looking at Milhouse's house for the first time and Milhouse is playing the Bonestorm game, notice the shot when Milhouse is being "blown away" from the speakers in his chair. This is a reference to Maxell whose media commonly have the "blown away guy" in a chair. (Marge Be Not Proud)
When Homer calls Bush a "wimp", this is a reference to the Wimp Factor, a criticism of Bush during the 1988 Election claiming that Bush looked "too weak" to be a president. (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Maggie is shown dancing in her diaper and covered in slogans, it is a parody of the filler scenes of Goldie Hawn (and other female castmembers like Ruth Buzzi and Jo Anne Worley) dancing in a bikini with slogans and drawings painted on their bodies shown on Laugh-In. (Mother Simpson)
While the Flanders were driving to the Springfield river with the Simpsons' children, Maggie, who was sitting at the front row, spun her head around to look at Bart and Lisa. This is a parody of the infamous head-spinning scene from The Exorcist. (Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily)
Apu's line, "For the next five minutes, I'm going to party like it's on sale for $19.99!", references Prince's hit song, 1999.
Dr. Nick's story is very similar to many scenes from E.R.
Superintendent Chalmers says "Aurora borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?" which is a reference to the 1995 movie "The Langoliers", where Cpt. Brian Engle says: "You're kidding. The aurora borealis over California? And at this time of year?"
Skinner says that "Steamed Hams" is an expression used in Albany and not Utica, while the two cities are in the same region of Upstate NY, barely an hour apart from one another.
===The Tarantino connection===
The Simpson's Parody of the "dungeon scene" in Pulp Fiction.
The episode contains numerous references to Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. Like the film, the episode's plot is episodic though interconnected. Apu's brother Sanjay makes a square with his fingers, like Uma Thurman. The policemen's conversation about McDonald's parallels the famous "Royale With Cheese" discussion; the Krustyburger restaurant it takes place in also bears a striking resemblance to the diner Pumpkin and Honey Bunny attempt to rob in the film. In addition, Misirlou is playing in the background on the Krusty Burger's jukebox.
The subplot involving Chief Wiggum and Snake is a direct parody of the "Gold Watch" segment of the film. Snake runs over the donut-carrying Wiggum at a red light, like Bruce Willis did to Ving Rhames, and Wiggum chases after Snake (although his motive is exchanging insurance information rather than revenge). The two run into Herman's Pawn Shop, where Herman beats up and binds and gags the two, then waits for "Zed" to arrive. The Van Houtens come in instead, and a visibly annoyed Herman lets Milhouse use the restroom. Herman then threatens Kirk with his shotgun, but Milhouse unintentionally knocks out the shopkeeper with a spiked mace he found in the back room. Wiggum then hops out the open door, still tied to his chair, and falls down in the middle of the street.
The episode could be said to be a nod to Tarantino's style as a whole as Tarantino will often take segements from other films (or different media) and intertwine them into the story in the same way this episode does.
Selma says of Troy's ultramodern house, "It's like living in the not-too-distant future!", a reference to the Mystery Science Theater 3000 theme song.
Troy McClure stars in the fictional film The Muppets Go Medieval, a reference to various Muppet movies, and the film Pulp Fiction, which featured the term "get medieval".
Troy suggests that he might have a fragrance named after him called "Smellin' of Troy," a take-off of Helen of Troy.
Troy being pulled over in a Delorean mimics Johnny Carson's drunk driving offense while driving a Delorean DMC-12 in 1982.
Troy's sham marriage to Selma mirrors that of Rock Hudson's own marriage as Selma asks Troy if he were gay. This may refer to actors who get married to cover their homosexuality.
In the opening scene Reverend Lovejoy mispronounces the band name "Iron Butterfly" as "I. Ron Butterfly", in reference to L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology. He also refers to the song "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" as "In the Garden of Eden", effectively pronouncing it correctly. This is also a nod and a wink to the song's authors and their stories regarding the origination of the title.
The restaurant model and atmosphere used for the design of Moe's new restaurant was a combination of Chili's and T.G.I. Friday's.
In this episode heaven is meant to look like Oz, from The Wizard of Oz.
While the Flanders were driving to the Springfield river with the Simpsons' children, Maggie, who was sitting at the front row, spun her head around to look at Bart and Lisa. This is a parody of the infamous head-spinning scene from The Exorcist.
At the end of the episode, Mr. Smithers is feeding Mr. Burns peanuts, and Mr. Burns opens his mouth and makes a clicking noise, as in A Clockwork Orange when Alex is being fed by the Minister of the Interior. The manner in which Burns becomes injured is also similar to Alex: they both take a potentially life-threatening fall from a top story window.
Homer is punched in the stomach, which traps the assailant's hand within the fat. This references Terminator 2: Judgment Day, in which the T-800 punches the T-1000's head, only to be enveloped by liquid metal.
Smithers sensing something is wrong with Mr Burns is similar to Hallorann sensing something is wrong with Danny in the 1980 filmThe Shining.
The flashback scene where Homer tries to fit in with a group of guys in a van is similar to scenes from Dazed and Confused.
There are several Woodstock references in the episode, including Lisa noting that Hullabalooza was just like Woodstock, except "with security guards and ads everywhere."
Lisa jokingly claims she has "Chester A. Arthritis" in the historical society. This is a reference to the twenty first president of the United States: Chester A. Arthur.
The name of Donald Sutherland's character, Hollis Hurlbut, is based on the names of two Harvard freshman dorms, Hollis Hall and Hurlbut Hall. (List of Harvard dormitories) As many fans have probably noted, a large number of Simpsons writers (past and present) are Harvard College alumni.
Jebediah Springfield and the annual Springfield anniversary parallel Christopher Columbus and the annual national holiday which bears his name. In the episode it is revealed by Lisa that Springfield was not a hero but a pirate.
Lisa's poster of Jebediah Springfield resembles the "Wanted for Treason" poster circulated around Dallas about John F Kennedy before he was assassinated.
The pig that Homer roasts and blasts into the air, flying over the nuclear power plant, is a direct reference to the Pink Floyd'sAnimals album cover (see also Pink Floyd pigs).
The detective's "one more thing" line is a nod to Columbo.
The commercial for Bonestorm is a parody of the Slim Jim commercials. A wild Santa Claus, who is the game's spokesman, is a take on Slim Jim spokesman "Macho Man" Randy Savage. The commercial also parodies Mortal Kombat, featuring a cameo by a Liu Kang doppelganger who fights against a tank, and one of the characters in Bonestorm looks similar to Goro.
The Try-N-Save discount store takes its name from the Pic 'n' Save store chain. The store is modeled after discount stores such as Kmart and Wal-Mart.
In The Simpsons: Hit & Run, the opening missions of Stage 2 focuses on Bart trying to get a copy of "Bonestorm 2", despite the threat of expulsion from school for skipping. Sadly, the next shipment of the game never came due to Homer and Marge attacking the delivery truck during a Stage 1 mission.
Among the other games available from Try 'N' Save besides Bonestorm and Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge are Swim Meet, Save Hitler's Brain, Canasta Master, Operation Rescue, Electronic Biathlon, Angus Podgorny's Caber Toss (incorrectly spelled as "Caper Toss"), Celebrity Tutopsy, SimReich, A Streetcar Named Death, and Robot Stampede.
When Bart is debating whether or not to steal the game, he imagines likenesses of Sonic The Hedgehog, Donkey Kong, Mario and Luigi (who are depicted with the opposites of their actual heights) urging him to take it.
On the Krusty Christmas Special, Krusty references guest stars including "respected private citizen Tom Landry" and "South American sensation Xoxchitla." Krusty experiences severe difficulty pronouncing the name of the latter guest, who resembles the Brazilian children's television host Xuxa.
When Bart is looking at Milhouse's house for the first time and Milhouse is playing the Bonestorm game, notice the shot when Milhouse is being "blown away" from the speakers in his chair. This is a reference to Maxell whose media commonly have the "blown away guy" in a chair.
The radical group Mother Simpson becomes involved with is loosely based on the Weather Underground. Specifically, the story of group leader and former fugitive Bernardine Dohrn served as the inspiration for Mother Simpson’s life on the run.
The antibiotic bomb that goes off in the Burns lab is triggered by a Spiro Agnew alarm clock, which can be seen here.
When Maggie is shown dancing in her diaper and covered in slogans, it is a parody of the filler scenes of Goldie Hawn (and other female castmembers like Ruth Buzzi and Jo Anne Worley) dancing in a bikini with slogans and drawings painted on their bodies shown on Laugh-In.
The song originally intended to be taped over Mr. Burns’s cassette of “Walküenritt” was “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,” but was unclearable (too expensive), and ABBA’s “Waterloo” was selected instead (although the closed-captioning of the original broadcasting lists the last song as “Don’t You Want Me”).
Before the family confronted Mona about her past, she was reading Steal this Book.
When Mr. Burns was at the post office asking the postal clerk "I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 autogyro?", Prussia was once a powerful European empire that covered what is now Germany and parts of Poland, Siam was a country now known Thailand, and the autogyro was an aircraft that later paved the way for the invention of the helicopter.
Moe says that the Bears are "smarter than the aver-age bear" and "they swiped my pic-a-nic basket" in an homage to the Yogi Bear cartoons.
The "I Want You ... Out!" poster is similar to the famous Uncle Sam army recruitment poster.
Apu's parents in the flashback scene resemble the parents of the character for which he was named, the eponymous protagonist of Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy.
The title could be a reference to the comic 'Nick Fury and His Howling Commandos' or one of the many others with those types of titles.
One of the several Simpsons episodes to reference the film They Saved Hitler's Brain, as a flashback shows Grandpa Simpson about to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a sniper rifle, saying "Now they'll never save your brain, Hitler."
The failed assassination attempt itself is a reference to the movie The Day of the Jackal.
The lights from the Hellfish's eyes pointing where to dig is an homage to Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Montgomery Burns introduces himself to an assassin over the telephone as "M.B." The assassin replies, "Ah, Marion Barry! Is it time for another shipment already?"
The character of Griff is a reference to director Samuel Fuller who always had a character with this name in all of his films - notably Mark Hamill in The Big Red One - which also concerns a WWII platoon.
Double Dare – Spoofed in the opening "Krusty the Clown Show" segment.
Twilight's Last Gleaming - Title and similar plot.
Fail-Safe – At the beginning of the third act, we see scenes of everyday life across Springfield. One by one, with a "zooming" sound effect, they all freeze-frame in anticipation of the (supposedly) imminent nuclear blast. Such was the ending of the 1964Cold War thriller by Sidney Lumet.
"Daisy" political ad – The montage of scenes mentioned above ends with Maggie picking at a daisy - a parody of the famous political ad for the American presidential candidate Lyndon B. Johnson.
Wright Brothers – A vintage aircraft, said to be the plane used for the historic flight, is on display at the Springfield Air Show.
Dr. Strangelove – The underground compound resembles the War Room from the film; also Professor Frink appears as the title character from the film. The tune that Sideshow Bob whistles while preparing the bomb is "We'll Meet Again," as sung by Vera Lynn at the end of the film.
Tom Baker arrives in character as the Doctor (from Doctor Who), as part as a delegation of esteemed TV Representatives. Other representatives include:
"High Flight" sonnet quoted by the purportedly American Air Force general, which is actually more affiliated with the Royal Canadian Air Force. It is a similar jab to the British-made Harrier joke.
Col. Leslie "Hap" Hapablap (voiced by R. Lee Ermey) says, "What is your major malfunction?" to Sideshow Bob, which is a line delivered by Ermey's character in another Stanley Kubrick war movie, Full Metal Jacket.
Col. Hapablap also exclaims, "What in the World According to Garp?", which is a reference to the famous John Irving novel and film adaptation, "The World According to Garp.
At the time of this episode, a woman named Awilda Lopez was arrested for killing her adoptive daughter. When she was arrested, Lopez admitted to using her child as a mop to clean the floors of her house, similar to how Krusty the Clown uses Sideshow Mel in the beginning of this episode. Many fans found the joke to be in bad taste due to the timing of the events, but the joke has not been edited out and is included on the season seven DVD set.
An alien is found in Hangar 18 which could be a reference to the 1980s film or the song by Megadeth.
Kent Brockman ends his farewell speech by announcing that he will be writing a column for PC World magazine.
Garfield -- Fat, lasagna-eating cat from the comic strip of the same name
Krusty the Clown thinks of a way to stay on the air while the TV station was conducting an Emergency Broadcast System test. Though FCC regulations prohibited the actual EBS tone from airing on that show, the tone heard on this episode is actually used as an Emergency Alert System attention signal on NOAA Weather Radio. When Krusty started airing his show in a civil defense shack, the EBS was activated as if there were an actual emergency.
The cartoon "Itchy and Scratchy Meets Fritz The Cat" is a reference to the 1972 animated film Fritz the Cat that depicted drug use and sexuality in a frank matter.
The "Schoolhouse Rock" segment ("Amendment To Be") is a parody of I'm Just a Bill. Both it and "I'm Just a Bill" were performed by entertainer Jack Sheldon.
The character Roger Meyers, Sr. is based on Walt Disney, and many of the situations from this episode have their basis in fact or legend about the mogul. The relationship between Roger Meyers, Sr., and Chester J. Lampwick mirrors the real-life relationship between Disney and his chief animator in the 1920s, Ub Iwerks, who has been credited by some as having co-created Mickey Mouse.
In this episode, Rodger Meyers Jr. points out the well observed fact that many cartoons, especially the early 1960s Hanna-Barbera, are plagiarized live-action television shows and deeply resemble celebrities of the time. Examples include The Flintstones being a copy of The Honeymooners, Top Cat being based on Sgt. Bilko and, in one of the occasional times the show breaks the fourth wall, The Simpsons character Chief Wiggum being an animated counterpart of Edward G. Robinson. Wiggum, in the court at the time, looks at Meyers when he say the latter.
The relationship between Roger Meyers, Sr. and Chester J. Lampwick also mirrors that of the creators of Felix the Cat: Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer. Like Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, Pat Sullivan owned the cartoon studio and took all the credit, and it wasn't revealed until much later that Otto Messmer had been chiefly responsible for most of Felix's early development.
Roger Meyers, Sr., is again compared to Walt Disney when Joseph P. Kennedy is listed as a producer on Meyers' "Steamboat Itchy" cartoon in this episode. Walt Disney's cartoons were distributed to movie theatres from 1936 to 1952 by RKO Pictures, a movie studio founded when three Kennedy-owned companies merged with RCA in 1928. However, it should be noted that Joseph Kennedy sold all of his RKO stock in 1931 due to pressures from the Depression, so Disney and Kennedy never, in fact, worked together in Hollywood.
During the Schoolhouse Rock parody, after the amendment is ratified, a character runs past the screen and imitates Curly Howard's trademark whooping noise.
In "Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" the radio announcement "Astronomers from Tacoma to Vladivostok have just reported an ionic disturbance in the vicinity of the Van Allen Belt. Scientists are recommending that necessary precautions be taken." is an homage to the "announcements" near the start of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre radio play The War of the Worlds broadcast on Halloween 1938. In that play, the music of "Ramon Raquello and his orchestra" is interrupted by radio reports of astronomers at Princeton observing disturbances on Mars prior to the Martian invasion .
"Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" is a parody of the 1986 movie Maximum Overdrive, where a similar stellar cloud causes all machines, including cars, to move on their own, and attack mankind.
The Lard Lad's roar when he first comes to life is actually Godzilla's roar.
"Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace" is a parody of A Nightmare on Elm Street. When Willie shows the shadow of his rake, it is a homage to Freddy Krueger's famous clawed glove. Willie is also dressed as Freddy would be, in a red and green striped sweater.
"Homer³" is inspired by the 1962 The Twilight Zone episode called "Little Girl Lost". Homer even explicitly mentions "...that twilighty show about that zone..."
The film Tron (the first major film to use computer animation) is also mentioned by Homer as a means of describing his surroundings, as it featured similarly-styled vector-like computer graphics. In what appears to be a sly allusion to the film's lack of success at the box-office, none of the other characters are familiar with the reference.
The ornate building Homer encounters inside the third dimension (and is subsequently sucked into the black hole) is a recreation of the exterior of the library players encounter in the popular PC game Myst. The calm strings-based music throughout this segment similarly evokes the The Last Message (Imager Room Theme) from this game.
The way Bart atepts to save Homer is like in Poltergeist
Homer asks Bush to "apologize for the tax hike", a reference to Bush creating a 31% income tax as part of the 1990 Budget Reconciliation Act, despite his 1988 campaign promise of creating no new taxes.
When Homer and Bart shoot bottle rockets at the Bush house, it parodies a scene similar to the "Desert Storm" operation of the 1991 Gulf War, which occurred when Bush was in office.
Bush says that he'll ruin Homer "like a Japanese banquet", a reference to an incident that happened on January 8, 1992. During a state dinner, then-president Bush vomited on the lap of the Prime Minister of Japan, Kiichi Miyazawa.
Homer tricks Bush into coming to the door so he can glue a rainbow wig to his head by placing cardboard cutouts of Bush's sons in front of the door leading Bush to believe they're real. The sons represented are current President George W. Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
Bush is paid a visit by Mikhail Gorbachev. Homer calls him a "Commie friend" to Bush, referencing Gorbachev's role as the last leader of the Soviet Union before the fall of Communism and the thaw in relations between the two countries during Bush's term in office.
Homer attempts to persuade Marge not to sell his "Ayatollah Assa-hola" (Ayatollah Khomeni) t-shirt, claiming it works for any Ayatollah.
During the shot in which the shredded memoir is falling, a torn piece of paper briefly falls past the screen, with the only non-shredded words reading "V.P. Quayle" and "embarrassment."
When Bart and Bush are looking through a photo album, Bart says that Bob Mosbacher is "a dumb name."
After the Bushes move out, President Ford moves in and claims that he likes nachos and beer.
Homer demanding vengeance for Bush spanking Bart on the butt is a reference to those who were outraged by the Michael P. Fay incident.
When Homer calls Bush a "wimp", this is a reference to the Wimp Factor, a criticism of Bush during the 1988 Election claiming that Bush looked "too weak" to be a president.
Homer and Ford simultaneously fall over the sidewalk incline when the show ends. This is a parody of Gerald Ford's perceived clumsiness (most notably when he fell down the stairs of Air Force One several times) while in office.
Barbra Bush says George and Homer got off on the wrong foot, claiming their relationship is "just like the Noriega thing - now he and George are the best of friends." This reference to the former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is actually the opposite of the real situation: as CIA director, Bush had arranged for annual payments to General Noriega, but years later Bush launched Operation Just Cause to depose him.
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When Ned Flanders crashes into a tree, the car's airbag deploys. But Ned says in a later episode that "the church opposes them for some reason" (though this may not be a goof as Ned could have found this out and promptly removed them). (Much Apu About Nothing)
Moe was a part of "The Little Rascals", but the series wasn't called that until it was put on television. However, it should be noticed that many people have claimed to have been members of the Little Rascals without actually having been, so this might not be a legitimate claim. Besides, if Moe was really an "Our Gang" member, he would have been around 80 years old at the time of this episode's premiere. (Radioactive Man (The Simpsons episode))
One of the producers says they want to stay far away from making the movie like the campy 1970s Radioactive Man, but Dirk Richter died in the 1960s and the only Radioactive Man TV show mentioned was the one from the 1950s that had Laramie cigarettes as its sponsor (mentioned on the season two episode Three Men and a Comic Book). (Radioactive Man (The Simpsons episode))
The episode incorrectly addresses the procedure for gaining citizenship in the United States. If Apu is out of status and illegal, he would not be eligible for citizenship until he had first gained lawful permanent resident (green card) status. Thus, Apu would have to first gain a green card and live as a lawful permanent resident for five years before applying for citizenship. With green card status, Apu would not be considered an illegal immigrant, and thus would not have to worry about deporation, but the episodes skips this notion and jumps straight from illegal status to citizen status. (Much Apu About Nothing)
The parents' meeting to discuss the misprinted calendars appears to be at night. However, Marge says the meeting was held at the 13th hour of the 13th day of the 13th month. The 13th hour of the day is 1:00pm, early afternoon. So it couldn't be a part of triskadekaphobia. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
When Homer leaves "work" to see a movie, he meets Bart & Lisa at the door, presumably coming from school. After Homer comes home from the theater, he calls for Bart & Lisa, but gets no answer, implying he is alone in the house. Later, as he is driving an ice cream truck to the plant, he passes Lisa in the school bus, again presumably coming home from school. (King-Size Homer)
When Homer leaves "work" to see a movie, he meets Bart & Lisa at the door, presumably coming from school. After Homer comes home from the theater, he calls for Bart & Lisa, but gets no answer, implying he is alone in the house. Later, as he is driving an ice cream truck to the plant, he passes Lisa in the school bus, again presumably coming home from school.
When Ned Flanders crashes into a tree, the car's airbag deploys. But Ned says in a later episode that "the church opposes them for some reason" (though this may not be a goof as Ned could have found this out and promptly removed them).
The episode incorrectly addresses the procedure for gaining citizenship in the United States. If Apu is out of status and illegal, he would not be eligible for citizenship until he had first gained lawful permanent resident (green card) status. Thus, Apu would have to first gain a green card and live as a lawful permanent resident for five years before applying for citizenship. With green card status, Apu would not be considered an illegal immigrant, and thus would not have to worry about deporation, but the episodes skips this notion and jumps straight from illegal status to citizen status.
One of the producers says they want to stay far away from making the movie like the campy 1970s Radioactive Man, but Dirk Richter died in the 1960s and the only Radioactive Man TV show mentioned was the one from the 1950s that had Laramie cigarettes as its sponsor (mentioned on the season two episode Three Men and a Comic Book).
Moe was a part of "The Little Rascals", but the series wasn't called that until it was put on television. However, it should be noticed that many people have claimed to have been members of the Little Rascals without actually having been, so this might not be a legitimate claim. Besides, if Moe was really an "Our Gang" member, he would have been around 80 years old at the time of this episode's premiere.
The parents' meeting to discuss the misprinted calendars appears to be at night. However, Marge says the meeting was held at the 13th hour of the 13th day of the 13th month. The 13th hour of the day is 1:00pm, early afternoon. So it couldn't be a part of triskadekaphobia.
Apu: Because this particular flag is ridiculously out of date! The library must have purchased it during the brief period in 1912 after New Mexico became a state but before Arizona did! (Much Apu About Nothing)
Apu: It appears to be the flag that disappeared from the public library last year. (Much Apu About Nothing)
Barbara Bush: Oh, George, is that all you ever think about? The boys probably just want a letter of recommendation. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Bart: If you think he got such a great deal, I'll sell you my conscience for four-fifty. (Lisa walks away) I'll throw in my sense of decency too! It's the Bart Sales Event. Everything about me must go! (Bart Sells His Soul)
Bart: It's easy. All you have to do is sign a piece of paper that says I can have your soul. (sinister) I need a soul, Ralph! Any soul! YOURS! (begins advancing toward a terrified Ralph) (Bart Sells His Soul)
Bart: Maybe because you are as we say in latin, a "dorkus malorkus". (Bart on the Road)
Bush (taking his time at the menu): Let's see now. A "Krusty Burger"? That doesn't sound too appetizing. What kind of stew do ya have? (Two Bad Neighbors)
Bush: That's really more of a weekend thing, Ray. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Everyone: Oh yeah, that's right. etc. (putting hands down) (Two Bad Neighbors)
Fat Tony: No, what I said was: "He sleeps with the fishes." (A Fish Called Selma)
Father:(screaming) If you kids can't keep your hands to yourselves, I'm gonna turn this car around, and there'll be no Cape Canaveral for anybody! (Nelson reaches out from the window of Bart's car and slaps the man's back.) That's it! Back to Winnipeg! (Bart on the Road)
Gannon: Well, according to our computer aging program, she should look about… 25 years older. (Mother Simpson)
George H.W. Bush: Bar, the boys are out in the front yard. They'll help me think of a plan to get those Simpsons. (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: N'uh huh. Not going outside today, not with those neighbors. Staying right here till my speech to the Elk's club. (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: No! That's not Bar and me. It's them. (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: No, , the man and his boy. You know, the boy is named Bart, I don't know the name of the man. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Grave digger: Oh, dang blast it, isn't anyone in the daggabbing cemetery dead!? (Mother Simpson)
Hans Moleman:(Opening the lid of his coffin) I didn’t want to cause a fuss, but now that you mention it… (His coffin is slowly lowered into the ground) (Mother Simpson)
Hitchhiker: Well, I didn't think I was rehabilitated, but I guess they needed the extra bed. (Bart on the Road)
Homer's Brain: There it is, Homer. The cleverest thing you'll ever say and nobody heard it. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer:(dejected) 'Cause they won't hire an assistant. (Bart on the Road)
Homer:(very calm) Yes...that's a real pickle. Would you excuse me for a moment? (puts on a radiation suit helmet and screams profanities until the mask fogs up) All right, I have thought this through. I will send Bart the money to fly home...then I will murder him. (Bart on the Road)
Homer: (interrupts out of nowhere) Seven! (Mother Simpson)
Homer: (trying to think) Rhetorical, eh? Eight! (Mother Simpson)
Homer: Correct. Now, we all know the thirteen strips are for good luck, but why does the American flag have precisely forty-seven stars? (Much Apu About Nothing)
Homer: Marge, tell Bart I just want to drink a nice glass of syrup like I do every morning. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Homer: Nerr, look at thoose phonies, sucking up to Bush. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: No, no, and no! I guess we have to start all over with the electrical college. (Much Apu About Nothing)
Homer: OK, Son: give him the glue! [Bart squeezes some glue onto Bush's hair while Homer stuffs a multicolored afro on top, they run off, laughing. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Oh, I wanted to write 'Disco Stud', but I ran out of room. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Okay, let's give it up for the new guy! Now, let's all turn around and pay attention to me again! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Uh huh, uh huh. Um, could you repeat the part where you said the stuff about, the things?...... The things? (Homer the Smithers)
Homer: Well, it's not quite a mop, and it's not quite a puppet, but man... (laughs, then continues in a serious manner) So, to answer your question, I don't know. (A Fish Called Selma)
Martin: Uh... No we don't, I must've spent our last 10 dollars on this Al Gore doll. (Bart on the Road)
Mayor Quimby: Very well. I promise swift and decisive action against these hibernating hucksters! (Everyone leaves, reassured, while Quimby helps himself to the pic-in-ic basket) (Much Apu About Nothing)
Mayor Quimby: Well then we have no option, bring in the esteemed representatives of television. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Second Announcer: That's right Dick. You know, this year everyone's abuzz about one thing. The absence of Mark Rodkin. (looking to his left) Oh wait, there he is. (Two Bad Neighbors)
(Bart hisses, flashes cat pupils, and runs into a cloud of steam, disappearing into the night) (Bart Sells His Soul)
(Burns puts a cassette in the tank’s player and it begins playing “Walkürenritt.” About five seconds in, it abruptly changes to “Waterloo” by ABBA) (Mother Simpson)
Abe: (referring to Joe Namath) Look at them sideburns! He looks like a girl! Now, Johnny Unitas, there’s a haircut you can set your watch to! (Mother Simpson)
Abe: A little from column A, a little from column B. (Mother Simpson)
Abe: All right, I admit it! I am the Lindbergh baby. Waah! Waah! Goo goo. I miss my fly-fly dada. (Mother Simpson)
Abe: It was either that, or tell him his mother was a wanted criminal! You were a rotten wife, and I’ll never, ever forgive you! (beat) Can we have sex? Please? (Mother Simpson)
Apu: Yes, indeed I do think that. But, I learned long ago, Lisa, to tolerate others rather than forcing my beliefs on them. You know you can influence people without badgering them always. It's like Paul's song, Live and Let Live. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Apu: Actually, there were numerous causes. Aside from the obvious schism between the abolitionists and the anti-abolitionists, there were economic factors, both domestic and inter-- (Much Apu About Nothing)
Bart: Soul? Come on, Milhouse, there is no such thing as a soul. It's just something they made up to scare kids, like the boogeyman or Michael Jackson. (Bart Sells His Soul)
Bart: Well we've still got a car and a wad of cash! (Bart on the Road)
Burns: I'll have my lunch now; a single pillow of shredded wheat, some steamed toast and a dodo egg. (Homer the Smithers)
Burns: No! I thought, uh, I thought I'd chauffeur myself this evening. Yes, that's what I thought. How difficult could it be? I'm sure the manual will indicate which lever is the velocitator and which the deceleratrix, hmm? (Homer the Smithers)
Burns: Stay back Homer, approach no further, coffee's already made. I stomped the beans myself. (Homer the Smithers)
Carl: Oh no! Them rocks broke his arms and legs! (Mother Simpson)
Carl: Oh no! They’re biting him… and stealing his pants! (Mother Simpson)
Cayman Islands guy: I'm sorry, but I cannot divulge information about that customer's secret, illegal account! Oh, crap. I shouldn't have said he was a customer! Oh, crap. I shouldn't have said it was a secret! Oh, crap! I certainly shouldn't have said it was illegal! It's too hot today. (Bart the Fink)
Chief Wiggum: (arresting the bear, and Barney the drunk) Book 'em Lou. One count of being a bear. And one count of being an accessory to being a bear. (Much Apu About Nothing)
Chief Wiggum: Hey, where is Sideshow Bob and that guy who eats people and takes their faces? (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Chief Wiggum: That's some nice reckless driving, Mr. B. (Homer the Smithers)
Col. Hapablap: We've searched this base from top to bottom and found nothing but porno, porno, porno! (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Col. Leslie "Hap" Hapablap: What a day for an airshow! Not a cloud in the sky! Sideshow Bob: Except perhaps...a mushroom cloud. (Bob laughs manically as he carries away a 10 Megaton nuclear weapon in a wheelbarrow, but his laugh becomes less manic after the bomb almost falls out) (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Dr. Hibbert: I don't understand. Are you saying you and Barbara are bad neighbors? (Two Bad Neighbors)
Film narrator: "1796. A fiercely determined band of pioneers leaves Maryland after misinterpreting a passage in the Bible. Their destination: New Sodom. This is their story." (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Friday: Are you trying to stall us, or are you just senile? (Mother Simpson)
Friday: Chief, you’re talking into your wallet. (Mother Simpson)
Friday: That’s “Homer J. Simpson,” Chief. You’re reading it upside down. (Mother Simpson)
George H.W. Bush:(notices Homer and Bart walking to his house through the sewer) If he thinks George Bush won't go in to the sewer, he doesn't know George Bush! (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: Hi everyone. I'm George Bush. (everyone stares) Uh, former President George Bush? (everyone begins cheering) (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: I'll ruin you like a Japanese banquet! (Two Bad Neighbors)
George: (at the Elks Club later) And that's why I will continue to oppose teen alcoholism in all its forms! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Grampa: When I was a pup we got spanked by presidents 'til the cows came home. Grover Cleveland spanked me on two non-consecutive occasions! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Hollis Hurlbut (to eight-year-old Lisa): "You're banned from this Historical Society! You and your children and your children's children! ...For three months." (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Homer (driving like mad into Krusty Burger): Oh, I only have one more minute before they stop serving those breakfast balls! D'oh! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer (to Hollis Hurlburt): Hello. Town crier, got a couple of questions for you. One: where's the fife? Two: give me the fife. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Homer: Don't let Krusty's death get you down, boy. People die all the time, just like that. (snaps) Why, you could wake up dead tomorrow. ... Well, goodnight. (Bart the Fink)
Homer: Quiet, boy. I have a feeling some bad stuff is about to go down. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Homer: Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Lisa, honey, are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon? (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Homer: Mom, I’m sorry I never come to see you. I’m just not a cemetery person. “Here lies—Walt Whitman”?! Aargh! Damn you, Walt Whitman! I! Hate! You! Walt! Freaking! Whitman! Leaves of Grass, my ass! (Mother Simpson)
Homer:(looking at his records) “Wife, Margorie. Children, Bartholomew, Lisa”—Aha! See? This thing is all screwed up! Who the heck is Margaret Simpson? (Mother Simpson)
Homer:(looking at the oh-so tiny print of the stock reports) Uh... they all won. (Homer the Smithers)
Homer:(mockingly) Uh, Your youngest daughter! (Mother Simpson)
Homer:(yawning and turning off the TV) Marge, I'm bored. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Ah, not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm! (Much Apu About Nothing)
Homer: First Bush invades my home turf, then he takes away my pals, then he makes fun of the way I talk--probably--now he steals my right to raise a disobedient, smart-alecky son! Well, that's it! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Hello, this is Springfield Nuclear. I'd like to place an order for a....T-437 Safety Command Console. (Bart on the Road)
Homer: Here are your messages. (reading answering machine messages) "You have thirty minutes to move your car", "You have ten minutes", "Your car has been impounded", "Your car has been crushed into a cube", "You have thirty minutes to move your cube". (phone rings and Homer answers) Yel-lo, Mr. Burns' office. (Homer the Smithers)
Homer: I know! I'll throw my own barbecue, the greatest barbecue this town has ever seen, and I'll only invite who I want. That'll show ya'! (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Homer: Let's give it up for Table Five!! (everyone is going to see Bush, except Chief Wiggum, who is playing "Stayin' Alive" by The Bee-Gees on a piano, but Disco Stu stops to dance and Homer sings to the tune of it) Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Five! Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Fiiiiiiiiiiiive! (Wiggum walks over to see Bush) (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Marge? Since I'm not talking to Lisa, would you please ask her to pass me the syrup? (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Homer: Oh my god, I got so swept up in the scapegoating and fun of Proposition 24 I never stopped to think it might affect somebody I might care about. (Pause) You know what Apu? I am really, really going to miss you. (Nails up an Uncle Sam sign that says "I Want You Out!" and walks away whistling) (Much Apu About Nothing)
Homer: This is a map of nuclear sites around the country. As a safety inspector, I'm responsible for changing most of these light bulbs. (Bart on the Road)
Homer: Uh, well, can I at least drive you home, Mr. Burns? It's 5:00. (Homer the Smithers)
Krusty (after his plane, the "I'm-on-a-rolla-Gay", is being sold): But I love that plane! I used to fly to Vegas in it with Dean Martin. One time we were flyin' in it, and the moon hit his eye like a big pizza pie! We wrote a song about it! But it ended up infringing on one he recorded years before. (Bart the Fink)
Lisa:(gasps) You didn’t dumb it down! You said “rapport.” (Mother Simpson)
Lisa:(very fast) Bart rented a car with a phony driver's license and drove Milhouse, Nelson and Martin to a wig outlet in Knoxville and their car got crushed and they're out of money and they can't get home and Bart's working as a courier and just came back from Hong Kong! (Bart on the Road)
Lord Thistlewick Flanders: Charmed. Uh, a-googly-doogly. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Marge (going to bed with Homer, but the phone rings): Hello? Oh, hello, Principal Skinner. No, Bart has never been to Hong Kong before. Good-night. (hangs up, but the phone rings again) Hello? Tennessee State Police! No, my son's car was not crushed in Knoxville. I don't where to begin saying what's wrong with that. (phone rings again after Homer turns off the light) Hello? No! Bart is not available to deliver a humankidney to Amsterdam! (Homer stifles his laughter) Homer, are you laughing at me? (Bart on the Road)
Marge: This is where the wolf blows down the pigs house. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Maude: Oh, Marge... it was horrible! We were trapped in the house all afternoon... and, well... we had to drink toilet water! (Much Apu About Nothing)
Milhouse: A million dollars? Gee, thanks Bart, I owe you one. (Bart the Fink)
Milhouse: Where my tongue will be torn out by ravenous birds. (Bart Sells His Soul)
Milhouse: Every religion says you have a soul, Bart. Why would they lie? What would they have to gain? (Bart Sells His Soul)
Milhouse: I traded your soul for Alf pogs. Remember Alf? He's back. In pog form. (Bart Sells His Soul)
Miss Hoover: No, Ralph, there aren't any more. Just try to sleep while the other children are learning. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Miss Hoover: "This is nothing but dead white male-bashing from a PC thug. It's women like you who keep the rest of us from landing a husband." (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Moe Szyslak: (immediately accepting Mayor Quimby's scapegoating of the Immigrants) Immigants! I knew it was them! Even when it was the bears, I knew it was them. (Much Apu About Nothing)
Moe: "If you like good food, good fun, and a whole lot of crazy crap on the walls, then come on down to Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag." (Bart Sells His Soul)
Moe: "Now that's Moe like it! So bring the whole family. Mom, Dad, kids -- er, no old people. They're not covered by our insurance. It's fun! And remember our guarantee: if I'm not smiling when your check comes, your meal's on me. Uncle Moe's!" (forces a smile into the camera) (Bart Sells His Soul)
Moe: (feigning sympathy, growing angry) "Oh, your 'teef' hurt, huh? Your 'teef' hurt?! (finally loses his temper) "Well, that's too freaking bad! You hear me?! I'll tell you where you can put your freakin' 'sodie' too!!" (Bart Sells His Soul)
Moe: (growing unnerved but trying to keep his composure) "Whaaat … is it, sweetheart?" (Bart Sells His Soul)
Moe: (realizing what he's done, begging) "Aw, come on, folks. Wait, please come back! Please, I got a new offer: whenever Uncle Moe threatens you, you get a free steak … fish." (Bart Sells His Soul)
Mr. Burns: "Oh, you're a good boy, but the child labor people have been watching me like a hawk. (pushes Bart off his mechanical platform) Well, I'm off to get paintings. As they say, 'time is Monet.' As you were, Sarge! (laughs sinisterly and accidentally presses a button, sending him crashing through a wall) Oh, terribly sorry. Back to sleep, little girl." (Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish")
Mrs. Burns: That improvident lackwit? Always too busy stridin' about his atom mill to call his own mother. I'll give him what-fors 'till he cries brassafrax! (Homer the Smithers)
Nelson (after the car is destroyed): This wouldn't have happened if we'd just gone to Macon, Georgia! (everyone stares at him) I'm just sayin', is all. (Bart on the Road)
Nelson: (after exiting a movie theater showing Naked Lunch): I can think of at least two things wrong with that title. (Bart on the Road)
Nelson: Bart, can we weigh the car at that weighing station? (Bart on the Road)
Rev. Lovejoy: I know one of you is responsible for this, so repeat after me. If I withhold the truth may I go straight to hell, where I will eat naught but burning hot coals and drink naught but burning hot cola. (Bart Sells His Soul)
Selma: (On marrying Apu so he can stay in America) I'd rather eat poison. I'm already Selma Bouvier/Terwilliger/Hutz/McClure/Stu. Don't you think my name's long enough already without Nahumapesa... what's-it's-called slapped on the end of it!? (Much Apu About Nothing)
Sideshow Bob(having appeared on television in order to threaten the town to abolish television): By the way, I am aware of the irony of appearing on television in order to decry it. So don't bother pointing that out. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Sideshow Bob: Well, if it isn't my arch nemesis, Bart Simpson. And his sister Lisa, to whom I'm fairly indifferent. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Singers: "Come to Uncle Moe's for family fun. It's good, good, good, good, good good-good!" (Bart Sells His Soul)
Skinner: Uh oh. Two independent thought alarms in one day. The students are overstimulated. Willie! Remove all the colored chalk from the classrooms. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Smithers: Your new duties will include: answering Mr. Burns' phone, preparing his tax return, moistening his eyeballs, assisting with his chewing and swallowing, lying to Congress, and some light typing. (Homer the Smithers)
Smithers: 714 names? Better be more specific. (keeps typing) "Lazy", "clumsy", "dim-witted", "monstrously ugly". (Homer the Smithers)
Smithers: Hello, Mrs. Burns? This is Waylon Smithers. I have your son Montgomery on the line. (Homer the Smithers)
Smithers: I've got to find a replacement that won't outshine me. Perhaps if I search the employee evaluations for the word (types) "Incompetent". (Homer the Smithers)
Smithers: Oh, nuts to this, I'll just go get Homer Simpson. (Homer the Smithers)
Smithers: Will you be donating that million dollars now, sir? (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Soldier: (After he runs over the Wright Plane with a tank) Whoah...sorry. We don't normally drive these in the Air Force. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
TV Announcer: (talking about a sand castle competition) Bikini Girls! Dune Buggies! Dardevil surfers! (each event slowly interesting Homer, who is lounging on his couch) Ordinarily this beach would be swarming with them, but not today, ho-ho-no, they've all been cleared out to make way for painstaking sand preparation. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Taxi Driver: Yeah, I might’ve seen her, it’s hard to tell from this old picture, ya know? (Mother Simpson)
Chief Wiggum (using Jebediah Springfield's skull as a hand puppet): "There is no silver tongue. Is there, Bonesy?" (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Chief Wiggum: OK, folks, show's over. Nothing to see here, shows... Oh, my God! A horrible plane crash! Hey, everybody, get a load of this flaming wreckage! Come on, crowd around, crowd around! Don't be shy, crowd around! (Bart the Fink)
Disco Stu: (After being told to buy Homer's jacket with 'Disco Stu' on it): Disco Stu doesn't advertise. (Two Bad Neighbors)
(A tray covered with food, utensils, etc., is submerged into a deep-fat fryer. Moe takes the tray to a couple, where they eat the items and give their approval.) (Bart Sells His Soul)
Homer: Well, it's not quite a mop, and it's not quite a puppet, but man... (laughs, then continues in a serious manner) So, to answer your question, I don't know.
Troy: That's right boys, Troy's back from the gutter, and he's brought someone with him!
Milhouse: Every religion says you have a soul, Bart. Why would they lie? What would they have to gain?
(Camera pans to Rev. Lovejoy, who's counting the contents of many very full collection plates)
Rev. Lovejoy: I don't hear any scrubbing!
Bart: Soul? Come on, Milhouse, there is no such thing as a soul. It's just something they made up to scare kids, like the boogeyman or Michael Jackson.
Milhouse: I traded your soul for Alf pogs. Remember Alf? He's back. In pog form.
Ralph: Uh, hi Bart. I know you from school.
Bart: Ralph, how'd you like to make a dollar?
Ralph: I don't know.
Bart: It's easy. All you have to do is sign a piece of paper that says I can have your soul. (sinister) I need a soul, Ralph! Any soul! YOURS! (begins advancing toward a terrified Ralph)
Chief Wiggum: Hey, what's going on in there?!
(Bart hisses, flashes cat pupils, and runs into a cloud of steam, disappearing into the night)
Lisa: For five dollars, Milhouse could own you for a zillion years.
Bart: If you think he got such a great deal, I'll sell you my conscience for four-fifty. (Lisa walks away) I'll throw in my sense of decency too! It's the Bart Sales Event. Everything about me must go!
Lisa: Hmm. Pablo Neruda said, "Laughter is the language of the soul."
Bart: I am familiar with the works of Pablo Neruda.
Rev. Lovejoy: I know one of you is responsible for this, so repeat after me. If I withhold the truth may I go straight to hell, where I will eat naught but burning hot coals and drink naught but burning hot cola.
Ralph Wiggum: Where fiery demons will punch me in the back.
Bart: Where my soul will be chopped into confetti, strewn upon a parade of murderers and single mothers.
Milhouse: Where my tongue will be torn out by ravenous birds.
Bart: You don't have any spare change in your piggy bank.
Lisa: Not in any of the ones you know of.
==Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag==
===Moe's Television Commercial===
Moe: "If you like good food, good fun, and a whole lot of crazy crap on the walls, then come on down to Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag."
Announcer: "At Moe's, we serve good old-fashioned home cooking deep fried to perfection."
(A tray covered with food, utensils, etc., is submerged into a deep-fat fryer. Moe takes the tray to a couple, where they eat the items and give their approval.)
Moe: "Now that's Moe like it! So bring the whole family. Mom, Dad, kids -- er, no old people. They're not covered by our insurance. It's fun! And remember our guarantee: if I'm not smiling when your check comes, your meal's on me. Uncle Moe's!" (forces a smile into the camera)
Singers: "Come to Uncle Moe's for family fun. It's good, good, good, good, good good-good!"
===The end===
Little girl: "Unky Moe?"
Moe: (growing unnerved but trying to keep his composure) "Whaaat … is it, sweetheart?"
Little girl: "My sodie is too cold. My teef hurt!"
Moe: (feigning sympathy, growing angry) "Oh, your 'teef' hurt, huh? Your 'teef' hurt?! (finally loses his temper) "Well, that's too freaking bad! You hear me?! I'll tell you where you can put your freakin' 'sodie' too!!"
Ned: (appalled) "Well, I expect that type of language at Denny's, but not here!"
(patrons quickly leave restaurant)
Moe: (realizing what he's done, begging) "Aw, come on, folks. Wait, please come back! Please, I got a new offer: whenever Uncle Moe threatens you, you get a free steak … fish."
Lisa:(very fast) Bart rented a car with a phony driver's license and drove Milhouse, Nelson and Martin to a wig outlet in Knoxville and their car got crushed and they're out of money and they can't get home and Bart's working as a courier and just came back from Hong Kong!
Homer:(very calm) Yes...that's a real pickle. Would you excuse me for a moment? (puts on a radiation suit helmet and screams profanities until the mask fogs up) All right, I have thought this through. I will send Bart the money to fly home...then I will murder him.
Marge: Lisa, you'll have a fine time at the plant with dad. You've been interested in nuclear power for years.
Lisa: I signed numerous petitions to shut down that plant.
Marge: Well, there you go.
Homer: This is a map of nuclear sites around the country. As a safety inspector, I'm responsible for changing most of these light bulbs.
Lisa: Why are there so many burnt-out ones?
Homer:(dejected) 'Cause they won't hire an assistant.
(at the DMV)
Patty: Some days we don't let the line move at all.
Selma: We call those "weekdays".
(both laugh)
Nelson: (after exiting a movie theater showing Naked Lunch): I can think of at least two things wrong with that title.
Nelson: Ha Ha..ah ha, wow. I didn't think he was going to do "Moon River", but then...bam! second encore!
(Bart's car drives past a station wagon with a family that has three rowdy kids; the father is really angry)
Father:(screaming) If you kids can't keep your hands to yourselves, I'm gonna turn this car around, and there'll be no Cape Canaveral for anybody! (Nelson reaches out from the window of Bart's car and slaps the man's back.) That's it! Back to Winnipeg!
(the station wagon turns around and drives away on the wrong side of the road)
(in the car:)
Milhouse: Bart, can we stop for ice cream?
Bart:(flatly) Yes.
Nelson: Bart, can we weigh the car at that weighing station?
Bart:(flatly) Yes.
Milhouse: Hey Bart, can we pick up that hitchhiker?
Bart:(flatly) I don't see why not.
Hitchhiker: Bart, can we stop for ice cream?
Bart:(flatly) Yes.
Hitchhiker: Well, I didn't think I was rehabilitated, but I guess they needed the extra bed.
Nelson (after the car is destroyed): This wouldn't have happened if we'd just gone to Macon, Georgia! (everyone stares at him) I'm just sayin', is all.
Marge (going to bed with Homer, but the phone rings): Hello? Oh, hello, Principal Skinner. No, Bart has never been to Hong Kong before. Good-night. (hangs up, but the phone rings again) Hello? Tennessee State Police! No, my son's car was not crushed in Knoxville. I don't where to begin saying what's wrong with that. (phone rings again after Homer turns off the light) Hello? No! Bart is not available to deliver a humankidney to Amsterdam! (Homer stifles his laughter) Homer, are you laughing at me?
Bart: Well we've still got a car and a wad of cash!
Martin: Uh... No we don't, I must've spent our last 10 dollars on this Al Gore doll.
Al Gore Doll: You are hearing me talk.
Lisa: Its not fair, I'm the best student in school, how come I've never heard of this competition?!
Bart: Maybe because you are as we say in latin, a "dorkus malorkus".
Homer: Hello, this is Springfield Nuclear. I'd like to place an order for a....T-437 Safety Command Console.
Technician: But Springfield Nuclear, my computer shows that your T-437 Safety Command Console is fully operational.
(Homer pours his Buzz Cola all over the console, shorting it out.)
Technician: ...so I su—, (distressed) oh, my God! Oh, my Lord! Springfield Nuclear, you're operating without a T-437!
Milhouse: A million dollars? Gee, thanks Bart, I owe you one.
Bart: Now remember that's a postdated check. Don't cash it 'til the year 10,000.
Milhouse: Okay.
Cayman Islands guy: I'm sorry, but I cannot divulge information about that customer's secret, illegal account! Oh, crap. I shouldn't have said he was a customer! Oh, crap. I shouldn't have said it was a secret! Oh, crap! I certainly shouldn't have said it was illegal! It's too hot today.
Chief Wiggum: OK, folks, show's over. Nothing to see here, shows... Oh, my God! A horrible plane crash! Hey, everybody, get a load of this flaming wreckage! Come on, crowd around, crowd around! Don't be shy, crowd around!
Homer: Don't worry boy, Krusty's in heaven with all the other celebrities: John Dillinger, Ty Cobb, Joseph Stalin. (Sigh) I wish I were dead.
Captain McCallister: Not a quarter! Yar, he'll be dancing for hours.
Krusty (after his plane, the "I'm-on-a-rolla-Gay", is being sold): But I love that plane! I used to fly to Vegas in it with Dean Martin. One time we were flyin' in it, and the moon hit his eye like a big pizza pie! We wrote a song about it! But it ended up infringing on one he recorded years before.
Homer: Don't let Krusty's death get you down, boy. People die all the time, just like that. (snaps) Why, you could wake up dead tomorrow. ... Well, goodnight.
Krusty: (Having just lost everything) Everywhere I go I see teachers in Ferraris, research scientists drinking champagne. I tried to drink a coke on the bus, and they took away my pass!
Burns: (while driving and wrecking everything in his path) Beep! Beep! Out of my way! I'm a motorist!
Chief Wiggum: That's some nice reckless driving, Mr. B.
Burns: I'll have my lunch now; a single pillow of shredded wheat, some steamed toast and a dodo egg.
Homer: But I think the dodo went extin--.
Burns: Get going! And answer those phones, install a computer system and rotate my office so the window faces the hills!
Homer: Uh huh, uh huh. Um, could you repeat the part where you said the stuff about, the things?...... The things?
Homer: Here are your messages. (reading answering machine messages) "You have thirty minutes to move your car", "You have ten minutes", "Your car has been impounded", "Your car has been crushed into a cube", "You have thirty minutes to move your cube". (phone rings and Homer answers) Yel-lo, Mr. Burns' office.
Burns: Is it about my cube?
Mrs. Burns:(answering phone) Whot?
Smithers: Hello, Mrs. Burns? This is Waylon Smithers. I have your son Montgomery on the line.
Mrs. Burns: That improvident lackwit? Always too busy stridin' about his atom mill to call his own mother. I'll give him what-fors 'till he cries brassafrax!
Smithers: I've got to find a replacement that won't outshine me. Perhaps if I search the employee evaluations for the word (types) "Incompetent".
Computer reports: 714 matches found
Smithers: 714 names? Better be more specific. (keeps typing) "Lazy", "clumsy", "dim-witted", "monstrously ugly".
Computer searches, then reports: 714 matches found
Smithers: Oh, nuts to this, I'll just go get Homer Simpson.
Burns: Doughnuts? I told you I don't like ethnic food! Here, tell me how my stocks did yesterday.
Homer:(looking at the oh-so tiny print of the stock reports) Uh... they all won.
Burns: What about my options?
Homer: Well, you can either get up or go back to sleep.
Burns: I believe I'll get up.
(later...)
Burns:(unseen, but Homer is brushing his teeth) Scrub harder! Gotta get that layer of dead skin off! (Homer shudders)
Smithers: Your new duties will include: answering Mr. Burns' phone, preparing his tax return, moistening his eyeballs, assisting with his chewing and swallowing, lying to Congress, and some light typing.
Burns: Stay back Homer, approach no further, coffee's already made. I stomped the beans myself.
Homer: Uh, well, can I at least drive you home, Mr. Burns? It's 5:00.
Burns: No! I thought, uh, I thought I'd chauffeur myself this evening. Yes, that's what I thought. How difficult could it be? I'm sure the manual will indicate which lever is the velocitator and which the deceleratrix, hmm?
Film narrator: "1796. A fiercely determined band of pioneers leaves Maryland after misinterpreting a passage in the Bible. Their destination: New Sodom. This is their story."
Jebediah Springfield: "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man." (sic)
Edna Krabappel: "Embiggens? Humph, I've never heard that word before I moved to Springfield."
Hollis Hurlbut (to eight-year-old Lisa): "You're banned from this Historical Society! You and your children and your children's children! ...For three months."
Mayor Quimby: "Can't we have one meeting that doesn't end with us digging up a corpse?"
Miss Hoover: "This is nothing but dead white male-bashing from a PC thug. It's women like you who keep the rest of us from landing a husband."
Chief Wiggum (using Jebediah Springfield's skull as a hand puppet): "There is no silver tongue. Is there, Bonesy?"
Apu: Yes, indeed I do think that. But, I learned long ago, Lisa, to tolerate others rather than forcing my beliefs on them. You know you can influence people without badgering them always. It's like Paul's song, Live and Let Live.
Homer: Mom, I’m sorry I never come to see you. I’m just not a cemetery person. “Here lies—Walt Whitman”?! Aargh! Damn you, Walt Whitman! I! Hate! You! Walt! Freaking! Whitman! Leaves of Grass, my ass!
(Lenny and Carl narrate dummy Homer’s fall down the cliff).
Carl: Oh no! He’s going over the falls!
Lenny: Oh good! He snagged that tree branch.
Carl: Oh no! The branch broke off!
Lenny: Oh good! He can grab onto them pointy rocks.
Carl: Oh no! Them rocks broke his arms and legs!
Lenny: Oh good! Those helpful beavers are swimming out to save him.
Carl: Oh no! They’re biting him… and stealing his pants!
Homer: I thought you were dead!
Mona: I thought you were dead!
Grave digger: Oh, dang blast it, isn't anyone in the daggabbing cemetery dead!?
Hans Moleman:(Opening the lid of his coffin) I didn’t want to cause a fuss, but now that you mention it… (His coffin is slowly lowered into the ground)
(At the Springfield Hall of Records)
Homer:(looking at his records) “Wife, Margorie. Children, Bartholomew, Lisa”—Aha! See? This thing is all screwed up! Who the heck is Margaret Simpson?
Mona: You know, Lisa, I feel like I have an instant rapport with you.
Lisa:(gasps) You didn’t dumb it down! You said “rapport.”
Mona: You didn’t have to tell Homer I was dead!
Abe: It was either that, or tell him his mother was a wanted criminal! You were a rotten wife, and I’ll never, ever forgive you! (beat) Can we have sex? Please?
Mona:(disgusted) Oh, Abe.
Abe: Well, I tried. What’s for supper?
Wiggum: Put out an APB on a Uosdwis R. Dewoh. Uh, better start with Greektown.
Friday: That’s “Homer J. Simpson,” Chief. You’re reading it upside down.
Wiggum: Cancel that APB. Oh, but bring back some of them, uh, gyros(pronouncing it “jy-roes”).
Friday: Chief, you’re talking into your wallet.
Friday: Freeze. FBI. The jig is up.
Abe: All right, I admit it! I am the Lindbergh baby. Waah! Waah! Goo goo. I miss my fly-fly dada.
Friday: Are you trying to stall us, or are you just senile?
Abe: A little from column A, a little from column B.
Homer: Don’t forget me!
Mona: Don’t worry, Homer. You’ll always be a part of me. (hits her head on the doorframe)D'oh!
Abe: (referring to Joe Namath) Look at them sideburns! He looks like a girl! Now, Johnny Unitas, there’s a haircut you can set your watch to!
Mona: (singing “Blowin’ in the Wind” with Lisa) How many roads must a man walk down, before you can call him a man…?
Homer: (interrupts out of nowhere) Seven!
Lisa: No, Dad, it’s a rhetorical question.
Homer: (trying to think) Rhetorical, eh? Eight!
Lisa: Do you even know what “rhetorical” means?
Homer: Do I know what “rhetorical” means?
Taxi Driver: Yeah, I might’ve seen her, it’s hard to tell from this old picture, ya know?
Gannon: Well, according to our computer aging program, she should look about… 25 years older.
Taxi Driver: Yeah! I seen her! That is to say, I saw her.
Burns (in a tank): I’ve been waiting twenty-five years for this moment.
(Burns puts a cassette in the tank’s player and it begins playing “Walkürenritt.” About five seconds in, it abruptly changes to “Waterloo” by ABBA)
Smithers: I’m sorry, sir. I must have taped over that.
Marge: A tombstone?!
Patty: It came with the burial plot, but that's not important: the important thing is, Homer's dead.
Selma: We've been saving for this since your wedding day.
Homer: (after Prop 24 passes) When will people learn? Democracydoesn't work!
Homer: (chanting) "Down with taxes! Down with taxes!"
Helen: "Will someone please think of the children?"
Homer: (pointing to the US flag) Please identify this object.
Apu: It appears to be the flag that disappeared from the public library last year.
Homer: Correct. Now, we all know the thirteen strips are for good luck, but why does the American flag have precisely forty-seven stars?
Apu: Because this particular flag is ridiculously out of date! The library must have purchased it during the brief period in 1912 after New Mexico became a state but before Arizona did!
Mayor Quimby: Very well. I promise swift and decisive action against these hibernating hucksters! (Everyone leaves, reassured, while Quimby helps himself to the pic-in-ic basket)
Homer: Oh my god, I got so swept up in the scapegoating and fun of Proposition 24 I never stopped to think it might affect somebody I might care about. (Pause) You know what Apu? I am really, really going to miss you. (Nails up an Uncle Sam sign that says "I Want You Out!" and walks away whistling)
Apu: Executive, Legislative and...Judicial.
Homer: No, no, and no! I guess we have to start all over with the electrical college.
Homer: Let the bears pay the bear tax. I pay the Homer tax.
Lisa: That's the homeowner tax.
Homer: Well anyway, I'm still outraged!
Homer: Ah, not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm!
Lisa: That's specious reasoning, Dad.
Homer: Thank you, honey.
Lisa: By your logic, I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away!
Homer: Uh-huh, and how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn't work.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: It's just a stupid rock.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around here, do you?
Homer:(Looks around) Lisa, I'd like to buy your rock.
Proctor: All right, here's your last question. What was the cause of the Civil War?
Apu: Actually, there were numerous causes. Aside from the obvious schism between the abolitionists and the anti-abolitionists, there were economic factors, both domestic and inter--
Proctor: Wait, wait... just say slavery.
Apu: Slavery it is, sir.
Chief Wiggum: (arresting the bear, and Barney the drunk) Book 'em Lou. One count of being a bear. And one count of being an accessory to being a bear.
Moe Szyslak: (immediately accepting Mayor Quimby's scapegoating of the Immigrants) Immigants! I knew it was them! Even when it was the bears, I knew it was them.
Maude: Oh, Marge... it was horrible! We were trapped in the house all afternoon... and, well... we had to drink toilet water!
Marge: Well, things were bad everywhere.
Homer: I'm sick of these constant bear attacks. It's like a freakin' country bear jambaroo around here!
Selma: (On marrying Apu so he can stay in America) I'd rather eat poison. I'm already Selma Bouvier/Terwilliger/Hutz/McClure/Stu. Don't you think my name's long enough already without Nahumapesa... what's-it's-called slapped on the end of it!?
Grampa: Now, my story begins in 19-dickety-two. We had to say "dickety" 'cause the Kaiser had stolen our word "twenty". I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles...
Martin: "Dickety"? Highly dubious.
Grandpa: What are you cacklin' at, fatty?! Too much pie, that's your problem!
Homer: "Second class? What about Social Security, bus discounts, Medic-Alert jewelry, Gold Bond powder, pants all the way up to your armpits, and all those other senior perks? Oh, if you ask me, old folks have it pretty sweet."
Mr. Burns: There, Simpson; seven gone. As soon as you're in your pressboard coffin, I'll be the sole survivor and the treasure will be mine.
Grampa: Over my dead body, it will!
Burns: (angry groan) That's exactly the point! Oh, Simpson, can't you go five seconds without humiliating yourself?
Grampa:(his pants drop) How long was that?
Mr. Burns (defending the assassination attempt): "I tried to meet you halfway on this, Simpson, but you had to be Little Johnny Live-a-lot."
Bart: "Hey, Mr. Burns! Can I go with you to get the treasure? I won't eat much and I don't know the difference between right and wrong."
Mr. Burns: "Oh, you're a good boy, but the child labor people have been watching me like a hawk. (pushes Bart off his mechanical platform) Well, I'm off to get paintings. As they say, 'time is Monet.' As you were, Sarge! (laughs sinisterly and accidentally presses a button, sending him crashing through a wall) Oh, terribly sorry. Back to sleep, little girl."
Grampa: "Only if you're ready to stare danger in the face, put your manhood to the ultimate test, and take..."
Homer: "Pass."
Ned Flanders: "Well, howdy-doodily, stranger! Couldn't help but notice you're stealing my boat."
Grampa: "I'll bring it back."
Ned: "You ever operated a powerboat?"
Grampa: "No."
Ned: "Know anything about water safety?"
Grampa: "No."
Ned: "What do you need it for?"
Grampa: "It's a secret."
Ned: "Hoo-hoo, sounds spine-tingling-dingling! Just promise you'll have a good time. Maude, boys, come on up! We're gonna have a little camp out in the dinghy!"
(Rod and Todd cheer)
Grampa: Well, at least I got to show you I wasn't always a pathetic old kook...
Bart: You never were, Grampa.
Grampa: Oh... I'd hug ya, but I know you'd just get embarrassed.
Bart: I won't get embarrassed; I don't care who knows I love my Grampa. both hug
Baron:(pulls up in his roadster with techno track playing) Hey, fun boys, get a room! (peels out)
Grampa: I'm not gonna kill ya. That'd be cowardly. Monty Burns cowardly. I just wanna watch you squirm...
Mr. Burns:(enthusiastically) Yes sir! Is this to your liking?(Begins to squirm pathetically)
Grampa: There is one thing we don't stand for in the U.S. Army and that's trying to kill your commanding officer! You're out of my unit! You're out of the tontine! And that means the paintings are mine! Private, you are dismissed!
(Abe's sniper rifle sight shows Adolf Hitler inspecting a line of German soldiers. He positions the crosshairs on Hitler's head and prepares to change the course of history)
Bart (seeing the Wright Brothers plane): Look at that hunk of junk.
Grandpa: Oh, jeeh—you're ignorant! That's the Wright Brothers' plane. At Kitty Hawk in 1903, Charles Lindbergh flew it fifteen miles on a thimble full of corn oil. Single handedly won us the Civil War, it did!
Bart: So how do you know so much about American history?
Grandpa: I piece it together mostly from sugar packets.
Chief Wiggum: Hey, where is Sideshow Bob and that guy who eats people and takes their faces?
Normal-looking prisoner: I'm right here, Chief!
Wiggum: Oh. Then where's Sideshow Bob?
Another prisoner: Uh, he ran off.
Wiggum: Oh, great. Well...if anyone asks, I beat him to death, okay? (Leaves the place)
Col. Leslie "Hap" Hapablap: What a day for an airshow! Not a cloud in the sky! Sideshow Bob: Except perhaps...a mushroom cloud. (Bob laughs manically as he carries away a 10 Megaton nuclear weapon in a wheelbarrow, but his laugh becomes less manic after the bomb almost falls out)
Sideshow Bob(having appeared on television in order to threaten the town to abolish television): By the way, I am aware of the irony of appearing on television in order to decry it. So don't bother pointing that out.
Grandpa (in a porta-loo): This elevator only goes to the basement. And someone made an awful mess down there.
Col. Hapablap: We've searched this base from top to bottom and found nothing but porno, porno, porno!
Mayor Quimby: Well then we have no option, bring in the esteemed representatives of television.
Tom Baker, Steve Urkel, Kent Brockman, Bumblebee Man and Krusty come in.
Krusty: (Upon seeing the porno) Hey hey! This is my kinda meeting!
Bart:(to the squeaky-voiced Security Police Senior Airman) Way to guard the parking lot, Top Gun!
Squeaky-voiced SP: I have three medals for this!
Soldier: (After he runs over the Wright Plane with a tank) Whoah...sorry. We don't normally drive these in the Air Force.
Sideshow Bob: Well, if it isn't my arch nemesis, Bart Simpson. And his sister Lisa, to whom I'm fairly indifferent.
TV Announcer: (talking about a sand castle competition) Bikini Girls! Dune Buggies! Dardevil surfers! (each event slowly interesting Homer, who is lounging on his couch) Ordinarily this beach would be swarming with them, but not today, ho-ho-no, they've all been cleared out to make way for painstaking sand preparation.
Second Announcer: That's right Dick. You know, this year everyone's abuzz about one thing. The absence of Mark Rodkin. (looking to his left) Oh wait, there he is.
Homer:(yawning and turning off the TV) Marge, I'm bored.
Marge: Why don't you read something?
Homer: Because I'm trying to reduce my boredom.
Marge:(reading back of Homer's old jacket) Who's Disco Stu?
Homer: Oh, I wanted to write 'Disco Stud', but I ran out of room.
Disco Stu: (After being told to buy Homer's jacket with 'Disco Stu' on it): Disco Stu doesn't advertise.
Homer: Let's give it up for Table Five!! (everyone is going to see Bush, except Chief Wiggum, who is playing "Stayin' Alive" by The Bee-Gees on a piano, but Disco Stu stops to dance and Homer sings to the tune of it) Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Five! Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Fiiiiiiiiiiiive! (Wiggum walks over to see Bush)
Homer: I guess you might say he's barking up the wrong bush! Heh, heh, heh, heh!
Homer's Brain: There it is, Homer. The cleverest thing you'll ever say and nobody heard it.
Homer: D'oh!
Grampa: When I was a pup we got spanked by presidents 'til the cows came home. Grover Cleveland spanked me on two non-consecutive occasions!
George H.W. Bush:(notices Homer and Bart walking to his house through the sewer) If he thinks George Bush won't go in to the sewer, he doesn't know George Bush!
Homer: First Bush invades my home turf, then he takes away my pals, then he makes fun of the way I talk--probably--now he steals my right to raise a disobedient, smart-alecky son! Well, that's it!
Barbara Bush: George, it's time to get dressed
George H.W. Bush: N'uh huh. Not going outside today, not with those neighbors. Staying right here till my speech to the Elk's club.
